Investigators in Shanghai arrested a suspect linked to the fatal poisoning of 39-year-old billionaire tycoon Lin Qi, who died on Christmas Day. The alleged perpetrator of the crime is a 39-year-old employee of Lin’s company who has been identified by local media as Xu Yao. He is suspected of poisoning his boss with a contaminated cup of pu’er (or fermented tea) on December 17, when he fell ill and never regained consciousness.
Lin’s net worth was estimated at about $ 1.3 billion.
Lin is the founder of Yoozoo Games, which developed the popular Chinese video game based on War of Thrones company called Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming.
Before he died, Lin was working on a Netflix project with War of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, based on the popular Chinese science fiction trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Liu Cixin. The title was listed as a favorite book by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg.
Lin’s company bought the rights to the trilogy book The three-part body problem, which tried to develop and produce, but the project ended up being abandoned due to internal struggles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Lin was listed as the executive producer on the project to be written by Alexander Woo. Xu is described as a senior executive in the Yoozoo film and television division.