Wee Ee-Chao, a son of Singapore’s
richest man Wee Cho Yaw, sued a medical devices firm for
allegedly failing to pay rent on a bungalow near the city’s
Orchard Road shopping district.
Aluminaid Pte owes Wee and his wife S$646,000 ($509,000)
for loss of future income from the unfulfilled term of the lease
and unpaid rent, according to a lawsuit filed in the Singapore
High Court. The couple are seeking to end the lease and retake
the property, which has a monthly rent of S$38,000.
Aluminaid countersued and asked for its four-month deposit
back. The house was in a dilapidated state and infected with
mold, making it unsafe, the bandage maker said in court papers.
Complaints about the 26,000-square-foot property were the
tenant’s own doing, the Wees said in court papers this month.
Aluminaid’s chief executive officer, who wasn’t named in the
court documents, appears to be happy living in the present
conditions as he continues to stay there, the Wees said.
Similar houses in the Chatsworth Road area have sold for at
least S$22 million. Wee is the chairman of UOB-Kay Hian
Holdings, the brokerage unit of United Overseas Bank Ltd. His
father, Wee Cho Yaw has a net worth of $7.2 billion, according
to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Wee’s lawyer Lim Seng Sheoh declined to comment on the
dispute. Aluminaid declined to comment in an e-mailed statement.
The case is Wee Ee Chao v Aluminaid Pte, S85/2014.
Singapore High Court.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Andrea Tan in Singapore at
atan17@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Linus Chua at
lchua@bloomberg.net
Banking Billionaire Wee"s Son Sues in Singapore Rent Row
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