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