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A former Yoozoo Games executive has been sentenced to death over the poisoning of the company’s founder.<\/p>\n
Xu Yao poisoned Lin Qi’s food in December 2020 because they disagreed over how to run the business, according to the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court.<\/p>\n
Mr Lin, 39, died 10 days later and police arrested Xu.<\/p>\n
Xu, 39, had also poisoned drinks in the office between September and December that year, targeting two colleagues with whom he had also had differences.<\/p>\n
They became ill but recovered, as did two other employees who consumed the drinks.<\/p>\n
The court said Xu’s actions had been premeditated and had “endangered public safety”.<\/p>\n
It added: “His motive for the crime was extremely despicable, the means of the crime was extremely malicious, the harmful consequences were extremely serious, the subjective malignancy was extremely significant.”<\/p>\n
Under Chinese law, because the ruling was from the first court hearing Xu has the right to appeal, which would lead to a second, and final, hearing. It is not clear whether or not he will appeal.<\/p>\n
Mr Lin founded Yoozoo – also known as Youzu Interactive – in 2009 and became one of his homeland’s richest entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
He is believed to have had a net worth of around 6.8bn yuan (\u00a3745m) when he died, according to the Hurun China Rich List.<\/p>\n
Yoozoo developed Game Of Thrones: Winter Is Coming, a game based on the TV series.<\/p>\n
The company also owns film rights to The Three-Body Problem, a best-selling Chinese science fiction trilogy, and Xu headed up a subsidiary in charge of business related to it, according to Chinese media reports.<\/p>\n
In September 2020, the company granted\u00a0Netflix\u00a0<\/a>the right to produce an adaptation of the trilogy, Chinese state media reported at the time.<\/p>\n Source: \u00a0<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"