After a colourful legal struggle involving clandestine recordings, claims of fraud and abused trust, last February Chinese businessman Yuzhu Kang was reinstated as the owner of the five-star Fota Island Resort in Co Cork. The 61-year-old from Hebei province had launched a lawsuit in the Commercial Court in 2020 claiming he had been conned out of his shares in Fota and other assets, cumulatively valued at around €70 million, by business associates he had trusted to run his affairs in Ireland.  The defendants Xiu Xiang (aka Julie) Kelly and her son Tuo Du denied the allegations and claimed they were…

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