HONG KONG, Aug. 2 -- A Hong Kong court issued a freeze order on an HSBC bank account involved in an inheritance dispute involving the children of the late beverage magnate Zong Qinghou.

Qinghou is the founder of 'China's Coca-Cola' - the Chinese beverage giant Hangzhou Wahaha Group.

The current CEO Kelly Zong Fuli was thought to be Zong's only child but is now being sued by her extramarital half-siblings Jacky, Jessie, and Jerry Zong.

According to the plaintiffs they had reached an agreement to establish individual offshore trusts for each sibling, with the source being the currently frozen account, which holds US$1.8 billion (RM7.7 billion).

They allege that Kelly violated the agreement by failing to create the trusts after their fat...