Mobile phone recordings relied on in court by a Chinese businessman who claims he is the real owner of the five-star Fota Island Resort in Cork may have been manipulated by splicing together two parts of a conversation, his opponents have alleged. It is the latest charge of wrongdoing in the highly contentious multimillion-euro legal battle Yuzhu Kang has been waging in the Commercial Court since 2020 against two business associates based in Ireland. Kang, a 60-year-old from Hebei province in north-eastern China, alleges fellow company directors Xiu Xiang (aka Julie) Kelly and Tuo Du duped him out of his…

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