Yuan Baojing

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The sudden death penalty for a Chinese billionaire Yuan Baojing was a very controversal case, and he was not allowed to appeal.

Rise of Chinese whizzkid ends in lethal injection – Clifford Coonan

From the Independent (link): Yuan Baojing‘s remarkable rise from rural poverty to the head of a multi-billion-pound investment group ended with a lethal injection. The stock market whizzkid has been executed for hiring his brother and cousins to murder a policeman turned hitman turned blackmailer. It’s New China’s Scarface and Goodfellas, with a dash of […]

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