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Hate, power and rivalry: the plot behind the crime of the poisoned Chinese tycoon

2021-01-02T19:37:35.532Z


How Lin Qi, the online gaming billionaire, who was murdered by a colleague because he tried to displace him, died.


Daniel Vittar

01/02/2021 16:13

  • Clarín.com

  • World

Updated 01/02/2021 4:14 PM

Lin Qi

was a billionaire millennial who had built one of the largest online gaming companies in the world,

Yoozoo Game

, with which he had made a fortune.

He was poisoned in mid-December and died at Christmas, aged only 39, unable to enjoy the wealth and fame he had obtained in those years.

Behind his assassination is an executive of the same age and ambitions

, named Xu Yao, and a plot of mutual hatred, extreme rivalry and stark competition.

The strange sequence of events that led to the murder of Qi, linked to the world of games, movies and investment in the Internet

has fascinated China

, and in particular Shanghai, the economic capital of the Asian giant where Yoozoo was based.

Yoozoo, the company created by Lin Qi in Shanghai.

According to Hurun China's Rich List, which tracks the fortunes of Chinese moguls,

Lin had a net worth of $ 1 billion

.

It started building its fortune in the early 2010s, when the Chinese flocked to smartphones to play games and spend money.

At that time his company, Yoozoo,

created a series of popular online multiplayer games

that quickly grew his shares, and Lin's wealth became

one of China's youngest billionaires

.

He had a jump in global notoriety with the development of

Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming

, a strategy game for smartphones and personal computers based on the hit HBO series.

In recent years, Lin Qi had partnered with Netflix to produce a series about a famous Chinese science fiction and political best seller called

"The Three Body Problem

."

Games of Thrones, the online game created by Yoozoo

This book, praised by Barack Obama or Mark Zuckerberg, is a trilogy written by Liu Cixin and is set in present-day China.

It tells the story of an engineer called in by the Beijing authorities to investigate a series of suicides by scientists.

Discover

an alien plot with roots in Mao Se Tung's Cultural Revolution

.

Here Xu Yao enters to play, who had a strong dispute with Lin, whom he eventually ended up poisoning, according to Chinese media.

Xu was on Yoozoo's board of directors

, but last year, after serious disagreements with Lin, he resigned and moved to the company's film division.

It was specially dedicated to the realization of "The problem of the three bodies."

Although there was an

agreement with Netflix, with a budget of 30 million dollars

, the production of the series suffered

repeated delays

.

Yoozoo had also struggled financially in recent months, and Lin was ditching the stock, down to 25%.

Economic Weekly

, a People's Daily newspaper magazine, a spokesperson for the Chinese Communist Party, said

Lin wanted to remove Xu from the firm

, but without scandals.

So he was

cutting his salary

to force him to resign completely.

Xu was very well trained.

He had studied law at the Paul Cézanne University in France and later did a postgraduate degree at the University of Michigan, United States.

He later returned to China and worked at the prestigious financial conglomerate Fosun Group, before joining Yoozoo in 2017.

Everything indicates that Xu Yao could not bear being displaced and ended up killing his boss and colleague.

At first it was believed that Lin

had been poisoned with the famous red tea ("Pu'er")

, of which he was a fan.

But then authorities revealed that they actually

gave him a fatal series of pills

, which left him dying for more than a week.

Lin, one of the leading and youngest billionaires of this Chinese era, passionate about video games, tea, soccer, car racing and calligraphy, ended his days in the old style of the Asian giant's dynasties.

Xu Yao started the year in prison

l.

Source: clarin

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