PRC tour guide Yang Yin applied to court yesterday (11 Dec) to block Mdm Hedy Mok, niece of millionaire widow Chung Khin Chun, from obtaining full deputy powers to manage her aunt’s assets and daily matters.
Mdm Chung has been diagnosed to be suffering from dementia, earlier this year.
Yang has filed an application to become a defendant in the case brought by Mdm Mok, seeking to obtain full deputy powers to represent her aunt in official matters. This includes managing her aunt’s assets.
Yang filed the application despite having his Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) revoked last month.
The main argument put forth by Yang through his lawyer is that he is still a beneficiary in Mdm Chung’s will.
Being a defendant in the case, Yang will be able to object to Mdm Mok’s application or ask the court to set limits on her powers.
He could also argue for a power sharing arrangement with Mdm Mok since he is still a beneficiary in Mdm Chung’s current will.
Yang’s lawyer said that his client has “the right to object” to her application as he has an interest in Mdm Chung’s estate.
In 2010, the millionaire widow changed her will to appoint Yang as the sole executor and beneficiary of her estate.
“All options are open at this time,” Yang’s lawyer said.
The next court session will take place on 15 Jan.
Yang is also facing a separate lawsuit brought by Mdm Mok, who is trying to add his wife, parents and previous bailor as defendants. She has alleged that Yang manipulated her aunt into handing over her assets.
Yang Yin currently facing 334 charges
At the moment, Yang is facing 331 charges related to the falsification of his company’s accounts, Young Music & Dance Studio Pte Ltd, and 3 charges for immigration offences.
The 3 immigration charges are related to false declarations of salary so as to enable Yang to obtain his PR and his wife a Long Term Visit Pass (LTVP). He had also declared that his company’s turnover in 2009 and 2010 was $75,080 and $135,952, respectively. Mr Yang allegedly made these false statements to ICA in his applications.
Yang actually made his first PR application in 2010 but was rejected by ICA. In 2001, he succeeded, thanks in part to an appeal letter written by Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Intan.
At the time, he became a grassroots member in the neighborhood committee of Jalan Kayu in Ang Mo Kio GRC. Dr Intan is the MP for the ward. He was also an “Integration and Naturalization Champion”, helping Singaporeans and foreigners integrate with one another (‘PRC Yang not just an ordinary grassroots volunteer‘).
The earlier 331 charges were for falsifying the receipts of his company of which he is a director. He allegedly created receipts reflecting payment for activities such as piano lessons and training when there were no such transactions.
Some of the receipts, for example, showed a payment of $3,500 from “Chua Tee Tee” for “piano tuition 30 times and sound tuition 10 times”. Another was a $3,000 payment from “Heng Sah Bah” for “piano tuition 30 times + free times”.
The names when spoken in Hokkien sound like “fetch younger brother” (Chua Tee Tee) and “pay $300″ (Heng Sah Bah). Assuming these names are fictitious and given that Mr Yang does not know Hokkien well if at all (he is from Hangzhou), how was he able to come up with such names in the first place?
In all, the falsified receipts amounted to some $450,000 which accounts for the revenue “received” by the company from 2009 to 2014. The company needed to “receive” revenue in order to pay his salary which in turn was needed to support his Employment Pass application when he first arrived in Singapore in 2009. His EP application was approved when the Manpower Ministry was under the purview of Gan Kim Yong.
http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/12/11/yang-to-block-niece-getting-full-control-over-aunts-assets/
