2013 - Lawyer Counsel Barrister Raymond Wong Found Guilty of Fraud (黃桂生大律師行使假遺囑罪成監禁四年半)

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(SCMP, 28 November, 2013)

Lawyer Counsel Barrister Raymond Wong convicted of using fake will and forging dead man's signature.

Lawyer Counsel Barrister Raymond Wong has been convicted of using a bogus will drawn up in the name of a late calligraphy master that purportedly left a Western District flat to his sister, who was one of the master's apprentices.

It was impossible for the will to be real as three signatures on the document were found to be fake, a judge said yesterday.
 
Lawyer Counsel Barrister Raymond Wong (Wong Kwai-sang), 50, also forged the signature of Au Shu-cham on bank slips to withdraw a total of HK$15,400 from Au's bank account after he died in 2009 aged 75.
 
Wong was found guilty of nine charges - three of using a forged will, one of making a false statement on oath, and six counts of theft for taking the money.
 
"The will was certainly not made by Au," Judge Pang Chung-ping said in the District Court. "It is definitely a false document."
 
The court heard earlier that Au sold the flat on Sai Yuen Lane to his godson for HK$1 million in 1997 and continued to live in it.
 
In October 2009, Wong submitted a will to the High Court claiming Au had appointed him as executor and made his elder sister, who lived at the flat with Au and a few other pupils for more than 20 years, as a beneficiary.
 
In yesterday's ruling, the judge said that if Au had wanted to draw up a will when he became very ill in June 2009, he would have told at least one or two people who were really close to him.
 
However, no one saw Au sign the will. Two witnesses who purportedly signed it did not exist, and an expert found Au's signature was fake. Au's other pupils also said he had never mentioned leaving his estate to Wong's sister, Pang noted.
 
He adjourned sentencing to December 12 pending a psychiatric report, after Wong claimed he suffered from insomnia and mental illness.
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Barrister Lawyer Counsel Raymond Wong was found guilty of fraud in 2013: -

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黃桂生大律師 (Barrister Raymond K S Wong) 行使假遺囑罪成監禁四年半
Barrister Lawyer and Counsel Raymond Wong also known as Barrister Lawyer and Counsel Raymond K S Wong Convicted of Presenting a Forged Will Case - 黃桂生大律師行使假遺囑罪成案 - 實際判刑: -
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大律師黃桂生以假遺囑承辦已故甘草演員兼書法家區樹湛的遺產，並以假文件從區樹湛的銀行戶口提走1.54萬元，經審訊後被裁定使用假文書和盜竊等九項罪名成立。法官昨天斥黃桂生的行為卑劣，身為大律師卻利用專業知識犯案，極大機會因而失去大律師資格，屬黃桂生貪婪所致，與人無尤，判他監禁四年半。
 
抗辯手法不切實際
 
被告黃桂生（51歲）前天在區域法院被定罪時，獲兩名大律師到庭旁聽支持，昨天卻不見兩人蹤影。法官彭中屏指出，兩人對被告的行為應感蒙羞。
 
區樹湛在2009年7月去世，案發在2009年至2012年期間。法官指出，被告在區樹湛過世後一個月，即申請逆權侵佔其西環西源里單位，足見被告早已垂涎區樹湛的物業，而非一時貪婪，是經過思量後依計行事。
 
法官又批評辯方的抗辯手法不切實際，如以尋找筆迹專家為由，一再押後案件，浪費法庭時間。從被告提交的求情信，可見他仍在抵賴罪責，毫無悔意。雖然被告自爆有精神問題，但法官相信病情跟犯案無關。
 
案件編號：DCCC158/13