HONG KONG: Nina Wang's younger brother Kung Yan-sum yesterday expressed confidence in beating Tony Chan, his rival in the probate battle who claims Wang gave all her estate to him out of love.

"I feel deeply that there is righteousness in the world over the development of the issues in the past two years," Kung told reporters outside the court after finishing his testimony. "Evil can never beat the righteous."

The younger brother continued giving evidence yesterday in the Court of First Instance on day 17 of the probate trial. In court, Kung said he had received an SOS call from his eldest sister after she was admitted to the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at midnight, complaining that the medical workers were not attending to her.

Kung rushed to the hospital and met Chan, who possesses the 2006 will, in the corridor.

"He dared not look at my face. I felt that he was like a thief who popped up from somewhere and ran to escape," he said. "I almost reported the matter to the police."

Chan's counsel Edward Chan asserted that Kung's claim was made to attract media attention. Kung sighed and then defended himself.

"I am angered. Please don't gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure," he said.

He then demonstrated how Chan looked on that night.

"He kept running with his head lowered," he said.

Kung, a medical doctor, became emotional when recalling how Wang suffered from the illness. But he did not break down in tears as his two other sisters did.

He told Wang about his encounter with Chan in the hospital's corridor, asking her why Chan did not look at his face if Chan was her good friend.

"My sister gave a bitter smile," he said.

Kung told the court that the siblings met with Chan on April 4, 2007, a day after Wang's death.

In the meeting, Chan told the siblings that he had used his "energy" to transfer her illness to his elbow.

"He showed us the swollen part of the elbow," he said.

He also told the court that his former clinic was not rented or sold even though the premise was vacant for years because Wang believed that her husband Teddy would go to that clinic when he was released by the kidnappers.

Counsels for Chan and the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, which possesses the 2002 will, did not ask Kung to comment on the relationship between Wang and Chan.

When asked by reporters outside the court on his feeling about the legal proceedings, Kung replied without naming anyone, "Sima Zhao's mind is known to all people passing by", a Chinese idiom meaning that a person's supposed hidden intention is so well known that it is not really hidden any more.

He said that someone is infringing the privacy of a dead person for personal purposes and the dead person has no way to refute.

Kung said he was not angered after watching the videos presented to the court as exhibits proving Chan's intimate relationship with Wang.

He told reporters that one of the videos showed Wang dancing, and a man repeatedly saying "beautiful" and nothing else.

Kung said Wang loved performing and played with Zhao Dan, an actor who became famous in China in the 1930s, when she was young.

He said he agreed with his two sisters' comment that Chan was a parasite who would just humor the master.

Kung said Wang would be angered if she was aware of the probate trial.

"She would jump out of the coffin and slap his face twice," he said.

Wang's personal secretary Dinly Au will give evidence today.

(HK Edition 06/11/2009 page1)