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Friday, 23 May 2014

China Gives Former Mining Tycoon Death Sentence

A Chinese court Friday sentenced to death mining tycoon Liu Han on charges he headed a murderous criminal gang, a verdict that illustrates the seriousness of an anticorruption shake-up that has taken down dozens of government and business personalities.


The 48-year-old entrepreneur built his Sichuan Hanlong Group into one of the largest private enterprises in southwestern China. But he did it as the boss of a mafia-like organization that operated like a violent “big bully” using kidnapping and murder to upset economic and social order, according to the decision handed down Friday by the Xianning People’s Intermediate Court in Hubei province.


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