The former head of the popular gaming company Yoozoo Games has been sentenced to death for murdering the company’s founder.
Former Yoozoo Games CEO Xu Yao has been sentenced to death. The Chinese gaming company has been linked to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series The Three Body Challenge. Deadline reported this.
It is known to have been caused by the poisoning of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020, likely due to a dispute over business operations.
Lin became nauseous after drinking a cup of poisonous pu’er tea, was hospitalized and died 10 days later. Police detained Xu days after the company’s founder died.
Investigators found puffer fish poison, mercury and at least three other deadly substances in the cup.
Four other people fell ill but did not die after Xu poisoned office drinks between September and December 2020. He allegedly did so because of a dispute between two of them, the court statement said.
According to Chinese media reports, Yoozoo owns the film rights to the popular Chinese sci-fi trilogy “The Three-Body Problem”, and Xu heads a subsidiary responsible for related that business.
In September 2020, the company granted Netflix the rights to make an adaptation of the trilogy. It was produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Sina Weiss, and Lin is posthumously credited as executive producer of The 3 Body Problem, which debuted on March 21.
It was previously reported that in China, a court sentenced to death Australian writer of Chinese origin, Yang Hengjun, on espionage charges.
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