The board of directors of the Yoozoo company issued a statement on December 26 confirming the death of founder and president Lin Qi.
“Managers, supervisors, senior management and all employees of the company express their deep condolences for the death of Mr. Lin Qi,” the statement said.
A colleague of Lin, a 39-year-old man named Xu, has been arrested in Shanghai, and authorities said in a statement that they were first alerted to an alleged poisoning on December 17.
Police said Xu was “suspected of committing a serious crime.”
Two days before his death, Yoozoo issued a statement saying Lin had been admitted to the hospital for “physical discomfort,” but that he was in stable condition and was improving.
According to the world-rich list of the Hurun report, Lin, whose company was among China’s top mobile game publishers in terms of global revenue, was worth about $ 1 billion (6.8 billion yuan). ).
Founded in 2009, Yoozoo is known for the 2019 role-playing game title “Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming.” After focusing on film production in 2014, Lin bought the rights to the Chinese science fiction novel “The Three-Body Problem,” with Yoozoo Group reaching an agreement with Netflix to adapt the book to a television series produced by David Benioff and DB Weiss of “Game of Thrones” fame.