EIGHT years is VERY a long time to wait for one’s inheritance

EIGHT years is VERY a long time to wait for one’s inheritance

Yves Maurel, attempting to sort out his inheritance.

Yves Maurel is Max Maurel’s son and has returned to the Seychelles after years of study abroad to “straighten out” his father’s estate. In his Will Max Maurel appointed Gerard Maurel as his executor almost eight years ago. According to Yves, to date practically nothing has been done. No account has yet been rendered of the estate.

According to Yves his father left “everything he owned at the time of his death” to him and his older brother. Asked whether he was aware of what the estate consisted of he said that there is a property at La Retraite that belonged to his grandmother and that his father’s share was to have been passed on to him and his brother. There is also a property at Anse Poules Bleu, Parcel C 596, which now belongs to Golden Sun Pty Ltd a company in which the executor Gerard Maurel has 99 % shares. He said that he thinks that this is the same property that Mrs. Germaine Amesbury has said belongs to her grandfather Pierre Ernest Vidot.

He further added that he knew that his father was also the owner of L’Ilette, an island off Port Glaud, but he says that Max had allegedly entered into an agreement to lease it for SR 5 Million. “The way I understand it, for the first 5 years the lessee would pay my father SR 20,000 per month, at the expiration of the 5 year period my father would be paid a lump sum but he died before the 5 years were up. My father died in 1999 less than 5 years after the documents were signed, so it appears that the estate is owed SR 5 Million. To date I have not seen any inheritance.” So who was paid the SR 20,000 per month? And after the expiration of those five years who collected the lump sum? Should that money not be part of his estate and should the executor not have looked into these things?

Yves added “Gerard Maurel is not only the executor of the my father’s Will but he is also my uncle and my godfather, over the last 8 years I have approached him several times to inquire about my inheritance but I was ignored, fobbed off and threatened with expulsion from his chambers. I tried to contact him by letters, he claims that they were not received. Recently I instructed an attorney to write to him asking for an inventory and his response was a petty excuse of an inventory which was incomplete, undated and many items that formed part of the original inventory were not listed. I was told that these items including Parcel C 596 had been sold to him by my father who owed him some money. I have yet to see the land transfer documents. A whole container of my father’s personal belongings from Mauritius is alleged to have caught fire and destroyed but the recent inventory claims that this item could not be retrieved due to prohibitive costs. My brother and I could have happily met the costs had we been informed of the situation ”

It was pointed out to Yves that this whole thing might be seen as an attempt to “wash his dirty laundry in public” because after all he is Gerard’s god child and nephew and his response was that 8 years is a long time to wait for one’s inheritance.