This is a first victory for the alleged children of Zong Qinghou, the founder of the Wahaha drinks who died in February 2024 at 79 years. Friday 1is August, the Hongkong Supreme Court agreed with the three complainants by imposing the freezing of an HSBC account garnished with $ 1.8 billion (1.55 billion euros). It thus recognizes their rights as alleged beneficiaries of this capital.
Because they claim to be the unrecognized children of a hidden relationship for several decades between the billionaire now deceased and his mistress of Jianying, former employee of Wahaha. This trial opposes them to Kelly Zong Fuli, 43, legitimate daughter of Zong Qinghou and current CEO of Wahaha.
The three complainants, two men and a woman, assure that the businessman, a true industrial icon of China in the 2000s, had promised, a month before his death and via a brief handwritten note, to create three offshore trusts in order to transfer money fairly. The Hong Kong justice therefore ruled in their favor, by freezing the Hong Kong account of a structure based in the British Virgin Islands, led by Zong Qinghou then by his legitimate daughter, and supposed to feed these trusts.
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