A former government at Yoozoo Video games was sentenced to demise on Friday within the 2020 poisoning of the corporate founder. The Chinese language gaming firm has hyperlinks to Sport of Thrones and the brand new Netflix collection, The 3-Physique Drawback.
Xu Yao poisoned the meals of 39-year-old firm founder Lin Qi in December 2020, allegedly due to a dispute over the enterprise operations, the Shanghai First Intermediate Individuals’s Courtroom mentioned.
Lin was allegedly sickened by a cup of poisoned pu-erh tea. Lin died about 10 days later. Police detained Xu just a few days after Lin’s demise.
4 different individuals have been sickened however didn’t die after Xu poisoned drinks within the workplace between September and December 2020. He allegedly did so due to disputes with two of them, the courtroom mentioned in an announcement.
Yoozoo owns the movie rights to The three-Physique Drawback, a best-selling Chinese language science fiction trilogy, and Xu headed up a subsidiary in control of enterprise associated to it, in accordance with Chinese language media studies.
In September 2020, the corporate gave Netflix the suitable to supply an adaptation of the trilogy. It’s produced by Sport of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and Lin was listed as an government producer on the collection.
Yoozoo, also referred to as Youzu Interactive, developed Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming, a recreation primarily based on the TV collection.
