Mar 22, 2024 08:53 PM

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Former Yoozoo Executive Sentenced to Death for Fatally Poisoning Chairman

By Guan Cong and Ding Yi

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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.

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