Public Housing resident claims $3.2m in valuables stolen from home
A public housing resident is suing over $3.2m of antiques he says were stolen from his home while he was incarcerated in China.
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A man who lived in public housing is suing the state government because he claims it is responsible for $3.2 million worth of valuables that went missing from his home.
Yan Lim Yang has taken action in the NSW Supreme Court after he said the goods went missing from his Kingswood home while he was behind bars in China.
On December 23, the court heard Mr Yang lived in the property between 2000 and 2012 by way of a residential tenancy agreement he had with the NSW Land and Housing Corporation.
“He asserts that as of December 2012, there were valuable goods in the property in the nature of antiques, having a value of $3,642,586,” Justice Richard Cavanagh told the court in a hearing on December 23.
However, in “early 2012” Mr Yang went to China for a “short holiday” but was “incarcerated” there until July 2013.
It was during this time that Mr Yang claims his “valuable antiques went missing, were removed or were stolen”, the court heard.
However, it is a mystery as to the circumstances in which the goods disappeared.
It also appears to be a mystery how someone who needed to live in public housing came to have $3.6 million of antiques in their house. So far the court has not shed much light.
“I do not need to say more about the circumstances in which they were removed from the property at this stage,” Justice Cavanagh told the court.
Lawyers for the government have sought to have Mr Yang’s case thrown out on the basis that he brought it after the six-year statute of limitation on such a claim had expired.
My Yang claimed the legal point was overcome by the fact that he has a disability.
Justice Cavanagh adjourned the matter to allow Mr Yang to produce evidence about the nature of his disability.
The matter will return to court on May 7.
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