Yuzu’s board of directors issued a statement on December 26 confirming the death of founder and chairman Lin Qin.
“The director, supervisors, senior management and all employees of the company express their deepest condolences on the demise of Mr. Lin Qi,” the statement said.
Lin’s accomplice – a 39-year-old man with the surname Xu – has been detained in Shanghai, officials said in a statement, adding that on December 17 they were warned of the first suspected poisoning.
Zune is “suspected of committing a major crime,” police said.
Two days before his death, Yuzu released a statement saying that Lin had been hospitalized due to “physical discomfort”, but was in stable condition and in recovery.
Lin, whose company is one of China’s leading mobile game publishers in terms of global revenue, was valued at about 1 1 billion ($ 6.8 billion yuan), according to the Huron Report Global Rich List.
Founded in 2009, Yuzu is known for its 2019 role-playing title “Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming”. After focusing on filmmaking in 2001, Lynn bought the rights to the Chinese science fiction novel “The Three-Body Problem”, in which the Yuzu group struck a deal with Netflix to adapt the book to a television series produced by David Benioff. DB Weiss of “Game of Thrones” fame.
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