Former Yoozoo Executive Sentenced to Death for Fatally Poisoning Chairman

A former executive at Chinese game publisher Yoozoo Interactive Co. Ltd. (游族网络) (002174.SZ) has been sentenced to death for murdering the company’s chairman and chief executive, Lin Qi, a court announced Friday.

Xu Yao, 43, who joined Yoozoo in 2017 and got involved in managing film projects related to best-selling Chinese book “The Three-Body Problem,” poisoned Lin on Dec. 14 and Dec. 15, 2020, leading to his death, after conflicting with the latter over management issues, the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court said.