Man executed for fatally poisoning billionaire who helped bring ‘3 Body Problem’ to Netflix | CNN

A Chinese lawyer who fatally poisoned the billionaire gaming tycoon who helped produce the Netflix sci-fi hit “3 Body Problem” has been executed, according to Chinese state media. Xu Yao killed his boss Lin Qi in 2020 by gifting him what he said were probiotic pills, which in fact contained lethal toxins which he bought off the dark web and mixed in his own lab. Earlier that year, the high-flying lawyer had helped Lin secure the rights to adapt Liu Cixin’s celebrated trilogy of sci-fi books, which starts with “The Three-Body Problem.” He was executed last Thursday, two years after being sentenced to death for murder by a court in Shanghai. The news of execution was first reported on Tuesday by Chinese state media the Economic Observer, citing people familiar with the matter. Confirming the report, Three Body Universe, the company once owned by Lin to develop the trilogy’s intellectual property, issued a statement on Tuesday saying “all employees of our company are grateful for the justice served by the legal system.” The statement paid tribute to Lin, who was named as an executive producer in the opening credits of Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” when it was releas

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