Peter Chan gets 12 years' jail for forging late tycoon Nina Wang's will
Former fung shui master granted individual cell in Stanley Prison after judge describes him as 'shameless, cruel and extremely greedy'
Peter Chan Chun-chuen secured special protection in prison yesterday after he was jailed for 12 years for what a judge described as shameless, cruel and extremely greedy conduct in forging the will of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum.
Chan, 53, a former fung shui master previously known as Tony Chan, was locked up in an individual cell in Stanley Prison after he apparently made a request for protection to the Correctional Services Department.
A department spokesman said individual cell arrangements were considered on the basis of offences and security levels.
On Thursday, Chan was found guilty by a Court of First Instance jury of forgery and using a false instrument. He attempted unsuccessfully to use the forged will to claim Wang's HK$83 billion estate as the sole beneficiary, in a drawn-out fight with the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, which Wang set up.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Andrew Macrae called Chan a "charlatan" and his act "the cruellest and most egregious of all" for taking advantage of a sad, lonely and tragic widow.
"Notwithstanding that you received during Mrs Wang's lifetime well over HK$3 billion, which enabled you to carry on a life of luxury few people in the world could ever imagine, you were not content with that and decided that you would have her business empire and estate as well," the judge said.
