Official investigation launched as shocked 27-year-old, whose mother died when she was just 9 years old, follows heartbreaking paper trail
A Chinese woman has revealed online that her mother was married to her younger brother posthumously, who then embezzled her properties as her widower.
The 27-year-old woman from central China’s Henan province, surnamed Sun, lost her mother Zhao Fang to illness at the age of nine, in 2008.
Since her parents were divorced and she had been living with her mother, Sun was adopted by her mother’s younger sister. She said her relatives notarised her mother’s assets around the time of her death.
The day before she died, they also signed a document to sell three of Zhao’s properties to pay her debts, and let her younger sister adopt Sun and hold the rest of her assets in trust until Sun reaches the age of 18.
Sun said she used to live with her mother in northern China’s Hebei province.
After her mother died, she lived alternately with her aunt and her uncle, her mother’s younger brother, in their hometown in Henan until she went to college in 2018.
According to the medical records, her mother was diagnosed with sepsis, which could quickly cause organ failure and death. Sun only heard about her mother’s death from her aunt and did not attend her funeral.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
