Heirs of late tycoon Henry Fok start new row over undistributed inheritance and jewelry

The late billionaire Henry Fok Ying-tung's estate inheritance case that was previously settled reignited after the eldest son of Fok's second wife filed a writ demanding the distribution of the HK$25 million estate from their late father. 

In a writ filed to the High Court last Friday, Thomas Fok Man-fong demanded his half-siblings Ian Fok Chun-wan and Benjamin Fok Chun-yue - the second and third son of Henry Fok's first wife who were also the executors of the estate - to distribute the estate to each of the beneficiaries according to a settlement agreed by the family members in 2012.

Thomas Fok requested the court to order the defendants to distribute the jewelry worth not less than HK$5 million along with the HK$25 million estate for each beneficiary.

It is understood that the 16 family members had signed a settlement agreement, with the three sons of the first wife each receiving HK$6.5 billion from Henry Fok's estate, while the remaining members share about HK$10 billion in total.

According to the information revealed by the children of the second and third wives, the remaining HK$25 million from the estates has yet to be distributed.