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Relatives of a wealthy 86-year-old retired doctor who has dementia have accused her maid and two foreign workers of enriching themselves with millions of dollars by taking undue advantage of the elderly woman.

They are now seeking to recover from Sri Lankan maid Arulampalam Kanthimathy and Indian nationals Kulandaivelu Malayaperumal and Gopal Subramanian a sum of about $5 million - which Dr Freda Paul gave them in cash between January and July of 2010.

Part of the cash was from the sale of her sprawling bungalow in Haig Road in October 2009, when it was sold for $15.4 million to a developer which has since built a 16-storey condominium on the plot.

Dr Paul's relatives also want to get back another $500,000 which Dr Paul gave to property agent Parvathi Somu, who handled the bungalow sale.

But the defendants insist the money was given to them willingly by the old woman because of their friendship and care, when her relatives allegedly deserted her.

The High Court suit was filed in June by lawyer and novelist Philip Jeyaretnam, a son of the late politician J.B. Jeyaretnam, with another distant relative.

Dr Paul's grandfather and Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam's grandfather were cousins.

Before her retirement, Dr Paul was a paediatric doctor at the Singapore General Hospital and an associate professor of paediatrics at the University of Singapore.

According to her relatives, a psychiatrist had diagnosed on Dec 15, 2009 that Dr Paul was incapable of making financial decisions.

On that basis, they are asking the court to order the gifts that she purportedly made after that date be returned to her as she did not have the capacity to understand her actions.

In their defence, Mr Perumal, 52, and Mr Gopal, 54, said that they befriended Dr Paul in 2001 when they were working for a construction firm at a worksite next to her bungalow.

They would come over to clean her house and they kept in touch after the construction works ended.

Dr Paul, who is unmarried, was then living in the bungalow with her sister Grace, who suffered from mental disabilities, and the maid.

Both Mr Perumal and Mr Gopal claim that Dr Paul had financial difficulties and did not get help from friends or relatives. They said that they had to buy her food and even lent her sums of $500 and $1,000 from time to time.

Mr Perumal claimed that even when Dr Paul's sister Grace died in hospital in June 2009, no relative turned up. He said that he was "a great source of comfort" to Dr Paul during that period.

In September 2009,Dr Paul granted Mr Gopal power of attorney to sell the house. It was sold a month later.

When the sale was completed in January, Mr Gopal paid himself $912,313, which was 6 per cent of the sales proceeds.

He also gave $1 million each to Mr Perumal and the maid, which he said was according to Dr Paul's wishes. He then bought her a smaller semi-detached house in Ceylon Road,which she moved into in early 2010, together with Mr Perumal.

In June that year, the maid was added as a joint account holder to Dr Paul's bank account. A month later in July, $2.5 million were transferred out of the joint account, with Mr Perumal and the maid receiving $1 million each.

The property agent received the other $500,000. These are part of the monies that Dr Paul's relatives are trying to recover for her.

In her filed defence, Ms Parvathi also insisted that she had cared for Dr Paul and that she had acted ethically and faithfully.

In April this year, the court revoked a will Dr Paul made in July 2010 which left the bulk of her estate to Mr Perumal and the maid, after giving $1.7 million to the property agent and three organisations and persons in India and Sri Lanka.

The court accepted that she did not have the mental capacity to make a new will and accepted a statutory will which reinstated an earlier will that she made in 2007 which leaves all her assets to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Medicine to set up a bursary fund for female medical students.

Dr Paul is now living in a nursing home. Her maid has left Singapore.

Both Mr Perumal and Mr Gopal - former work pass holders - have since obtained permanent residency. Mr Perumal is married to a Singaporean woman.

Both declined to comment when The Straits Times visited their flats in Toa Payoh and Sengkang yesterday, referring queries to their lawyer R. Kalamohan.

The case will be heard at the end of next month.

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谁拥有痴呆富裕的86岁退休的医生的亲属纷纷指责她的侍女，并与数百万美元通过采取老妇不正当的好处充实自己的两名外籍工人。

他们现在寻求从斯里兰卡女佣Arulampalam Kanthimathy和印度国民Kulandaivelu Malayaperumal和戈帕尔萨勃拉曼尼亚回收约$ 500万款项 - 这福瑞达保罗博士给他们的现金2010年1七月间。

现金的一部分是从2009年10月，销售在海格路她广阔的平房时，它是为$的15.4万部的销量，以开发其自建在小区16层高的公寓。

保罗医生的亲戚也想取回另外$ 50万，其中保罗博士给了物业代理帕尔瓦蒂Somu，谁处理的平房销售。

但被告坚持，因为他们的友谊和关怀，当她的亲戚涉嫌抛弃了她的钱给他们心甘情愿的老妇人。

高等法院诉讼是在6月，由律师和小说家菲利普J​​eyaretnam，已故政治家JB Jeyaretnam的儿子，另一个遥遥相对。

保罗博士​​的祖父和先生JB Jeyaretnam的祖父是堂兄弟。

她退休前，保罗博士是一名儿科医生在新加坡中央医院和儿科在新加坡大学的副教授。

据她的亲戚，心理医生已经诊断为2009年12月15号保罗博士是不能作出财务决策的。

在此基础上，他们要求法院下令她声称取得在该日期之后返还给她，因为她没有理解她的行为能力的礼物。

在他们的防守，Perumal先生，52岁，和戈帕尔先生，54岁，说他们结识保罗博士在2001年的时候被她旁边的平房工作了一家建筑公司的工地。

他们会过来清理她的房子，他们一直保持着联系建造工程结束后。

保罗博士​​，谁是未婚，当时住在她的姐妹格雷斯，谁来自智力残疾遭遇，闺女的平房。

无论Perumal先生和戈帕尔先生声称，保罗博士有经济困难并没有得到来自朋友或亲戚帮忙。他们说，他们不得不买她的食物，甚至借给$ 500及不时$ 1,000个她款项的时间。

Perumal先生声称，即使保罗博士的姐姐格蕾丝在医院病逝于2009年6月，没有相对止跌回升。他说，他是保罗博士在此期间，“舒适的重要来源”。

2009年9月，保罗博士授予代理戈帕尔先生力量把房子卖了。它被卖了一个月后。

当销售年1月完成，戈帕尔先生支付本人$九十一万二千三百一十三，这是销售收入的6％。

他还介绍了各$ 100万Perumal先生和女佣，他说，根据保罗博士的遗愿。然后，他给她买了一个更小的半独立屋锡兰路，她搬进了在2010年年初，连同Perumal先生。

在这一年六月，女仆被添加为联名账户持有人保罗博士的银行账户。一个月后的七月，$ 250万转出的共同账户，用Perumal先生和女仆接收各$ 100万美元。

物业代理接收其他$ 500,000。这些都是保罗博士的亲属正试图恢复她的款项的一部分。

在她提出辩护，女士帕尔瓦蒂还坚持说，她曾照顾保罗博士和她曾道德，忠实地采取了行动。

今年四月，法院撤销遗嘱保罗博士2010年7月取得留下大部分她的庄园Perumal先生和女仆，向物业代理和3个组织在印度和斯里兰卡人发出$ 1.7千万美元后。

法院承认，她没有足够的心理承受能力，使一个新的意愿和接受了恢复在2007年，她做了较早的遗嘱的法定意志这让她所有的资产，以医药新加坡学院的国立大学设立奖学金基金的女医学生。

保罗博士​​现在住在一家养老院。她的侍女已经离开新加坡。

无论Perumal先生和戈帕尔先生 - 前工作准证持有者 - 自从获得永久居留权。 Perumal先生娶了一位新加坡妇女。

双方均拒绝置评时海峡时报参观了他们在大巴窑和盛港公寓昨天，指查询到他们的律师R. Kalamohan。

该案件将于下个月月底。

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