Cops eye 'Liar' Chan ...as taxman set to chase him for $300m

But that wasn't enough to wipe the trademark toothy grin from Tony Chan Chun-chuen's face yesterday as he shaped up to continue the fight for the fortune of Chinachem tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum.

The eccentric Wang, who died in April 2007 at the age of 69, had taken the one-time bartender, salesman, waiter and market researcher as her lover when he captivated her in his role as a fung shui master and - by Chan's telling - willed him her entire estate.

But police are now going to examine the judgment of Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon, who ruled in the High Court that a will dated in 2006 and submitted by Chan was not signed by Wang.

Justice Lam described the document in which Wang supposedly left her assets to Chan as "a highly skilled simulation."

Instead, the judge said in a 326-page written judgement, the document that should count is a 2002 will in which Wang leaves her estate to her family- run Chinachem Charitable Foundation.

Following the ruling, police and the Department of Justice said they are studying the judgment to decide on what action, if any, to take.