Leonard Modise, son of the late International Pentecostal Holiness Church leader Glayton Modise, is in a legal dispute with the church’s trustees over luxury vehicles worth more than R200m, that he claims he bought from his father’s estate executors.

Following Glayton’s death in February 2016, a succession dispute erupted within the church.

Also embroiled was the late church leader’s estate, with his second wife, Pearl Tafu, claiming most of the assets.

City Press reports that Leonard then purchased some of the vehicles which had belonged to his father and the church from trustees and liquidators of the estate.

According to an application before the Gauteng High Court earlier this month, Leonard sought an order to compel the church trustees to hand over the vehicles he had purchased, as per the sale agreement.

Cited in the documents is Ndumiso Sibiya as the provisional trustee and liquidator of his father’s estate and the Master of the High Court as the custodian of the conclusion of the multimillion-rand estate.

Among the luxury vehicles are a Bentley Mulsanne, a BMW Rolls-Royce and a Mercedes-Benz V221. 

City Press notes that Leonard argues that the assets can no longer be classified under the deceased’s estate, mainly because of the sale agreements he entered into with the executors.

‘I enforced my rights in respect of the purchased assets against the executors. In the circumstances, none of the assets belong to the deceased’s estate, as I have acquired ownership and the right to utilise them,’ he notes.

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