The board of directors of the Yoozoo company released a statement on December 26 confirming the death of founder and chairman Lin Qi.
“The directors, supervisors, senior management and all employees of the company express their sincere condolences on the death of Mr. Lin Qi,” the statement read.
A colleague of Lin – a 39-year-old man with that of Xu – was detained in Shanghai. Authorities said in a statement that they were first notified of a suspected poisoning on December 17.
Police said Xu was “suspected of committing a major crime.”
Two days before his death, Yoozoo issued a statement saying that Lin had been admitted to the hospital due to ‘physical discomfort’, but was in a stable condition and improving.
According to Lin’s global rich list, Lin, according to which the company was one of China’s leading mobile gaming global players, is worth about $ 1 billion ($ 6.8 billion yuan).
Founded in 2009, Yoozoo is best known for the film title ‘Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming’ in 2019. After focusing on film production in 2014, he bought the rights to the Chinese science fiction novel “The Three-Body”. Problem “, with Yoozoo Group entering into an agreement with Netflix to adapt the book in a television series produced by David Benioff and DB Weiss of the” Game of Thrones “fame.