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Huang Kuan-chen, 55, and Liu Wen-pin, 63, were arrested by
Taichung police on June 7 for suspected fraud. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM YOUTUBE
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A Taiwanese woman has been arrested after she allegedly
coerced a terminally-ill Singaporean businessman to marry her just 18 days
before his death, media reports said.
Huang Kuan-chen, 55, was detained on June 7 and is under
investigation by Taiwanese authorities for suspected fraud, Focus Taiwan News
reported on Wednesday.
Her alleged accomplice Liu Wen-pin, a 63-year-old land
agent, has also been arrested.
The arrest came more than a year after Huang married
businessman Pua Ching Kiong to get at his NT$100 million (RM12.6mil) fortune,
Taiwanese media reports said quoting Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau
(CIB).
Pua, 73, who owned Pua Loong Trading Company, met Huang at a
religious event 30 years ago, the media, which included Apple Daily and TVBS,
said.
They met again in 2014, and she learnt that he was single
and was worth millions, Focus Taiwan News quoted Taiwan's CIB as saying.
Pua was the sole proprieter of Pua Loong Trading which sells
Dragon Balm, a liniment for aches and pains.
Huang and Liu asked Pua to move to Taiwan and they offered
to help him market dragon balm there.
They also promised to help him get medical treatment for his
diabetic condition.
Pua agreed and arrived in Taichung in December 2014. He
bought a return ticket, but stayed on in Taiwan beyond his planned date of
return.
In early 2015, he was hospitalised several times with
diabetes, an enlarged prostate, and other health problems, Focus Taiwan News
quoted CIB as saying.
Huang allegedly used fake receipts of more than S$42,000
(RM126,000) and asked Pua's family in Singapore to reimburse her for his
medical bills.
On February 24, 2015, Pua's condition worsened and he sought
emergency treatment at the hospital.
That afternoon, sitting in a wheelchair, he registered his
marriage with Huang. Reports say that Liu, 63, was the witness.
Less than a month later, on March 13 last year, Pua died and
Huang filed a court case in Singapore to obtain his assets, reports said.
Pua's family too filed a suit in Taichung to declare the
marriage between Pua and Huang void.
Pua's nurse later confessed to the police that she had been
bribed to help Huang and Liu, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
She said that Huang guided Pua's right hand as he signed the
marriage certificate.
Some Taiwanese reports, including Apple Daily and TVBS, used
the photo of another Singaporean businessman with the same Chinese name as Pua
in their articles on the fraud.
The news outlets mistook Pang Chin Keong, 65, Basketball
Association of Singapore vice-president, to be the victim.
Pang's and Pua's names are written with the same Chinese
characters.
However, Pang, alive and well, told Lianhe Zaobao on June 9
that he is in Penang but have asked friends in Taiwan to find out why the
mistake happened.
– The Straits Times/Asia News Network
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