‘Fraud and deceit’: locals decry Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s alleged attempt to expand Hawaii estate
- Family
members accuse billionaire of funding relative’s effort to buy land in
case they say ‘violates fairly basic notions of justice’
- Rival relative’s bid for four pieces of land has roughly doubled in two months since auction
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. Photo: handout
At a March auction, a group of Hawaiian relatives was able to block a distant cousin from buying one of four small parcels of land for sale on the island of Kauai. The outcome was shocking because the distant cousin, retired professor Carlos Andrade, had the backing of one of the richest men in the world: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose 283-hectare (700-acre) estate surrounds the disputed land.
But on Tuesday, the rules of the universe reasserted themselves. At a court hearing to finalise the outcome of the auction, Andrade was able to reopen the bidding and win the title to all four pieces of land for US$2,145,000.
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