Overview

• Former Yoozoo Games executive, Xu Yao, was sentenced to death for poisoning the company's founder, Lin Qi, in December 2020.
• The poisoning stemmed from a dispute over the management of the business, according to the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court.
• Lin Qi died approximately 10 days after being poisoned, with Xu being detained by police shortly after.
• Four other individuals were sickened but did not die after Xu poisoned beverages in the office due to disputes with two of them.
• Yoozoo owns the film rights to 'The Three-Body Problem,' a best-selling Chinese science fiction trilogy, and had granted Netflix the right to produce an adaptation in September 2020.