Chinese mining tycoon Liu Han sentenced to death

May 23, 2014

The former mining magnate Liu Han, and his brother has been sentenced to death, Chinese state media Xinhua. The two men Hubei Provincial Court for a "mafioso crime" and has been convicted of murder.
Two organized and murder, and sentenced to terms ranging from the death penalty, including fines and terms of imprisonment are among 36 people convicted of similar offenses crime.
Liu Han, mining, real estate, power, energy and money, with interest, including Sichuan Hanlong Group, Sichuan Province, southwest China, the former chairman of the board of the largest private company. Australian Company 48 years old, also has an important role. Official Chinese news sources said "hundreds of billions of yuan," or be in billions of dollars, was arrested after the seizure, his fortune, estimated.
He came to power last year when his case Chinese President Xi Jinping, launched an offensive against corruption, against the high profile of most of a private company.
State media also increases the Sichuan Province of Liu Zhou Yongkang tenure as head of the Communist Party coincided with reports they have. Zhou, Politburo Standing Committee, former members, Xi is the ultimate goal of the campaign against corruption. Reuters is also the source of Liu Zhou Bin, the eldest son of Zhou Yongkang, a business partner reported.
The suspicion of criminal activity, as well as his younger brother, Liu Wei Liu was arrested last year. Brothers and their associated trial against 34 policemen in the dock of the court, flanked by a photograph of Liu Han, sites of social media networks are published by the state news agency, March 31, by the Intermediate People's Court began in Xianning of Hubei Province.
Gang of thugs
According to the report, the Liu brothers gathered around them, in 1990, Guanghan, Sichuan province of China and south of the base stations start running out of gambling ", a band of local thugs and vagabonds."
Empire Report brothers finally managed to rival the world is supposedly a late January 2009, an alleged public shooting in a teahouse in Guanghan, attracting the attention of the central authorities, which used before.
According to reports, three people were killed and two wounded in the attack, the two suspects arrested, accused of having ordered attacks identified as Liu Wei.
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Liu Han is also a 2008 earthquake devastated Sichuan province after campus buildings in a rural school, developed a reputation as a philanthropist. His brother also had a reputation for charity, and also in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, according to Xinhua, the accumulation of a torch - they were carriers.
Anti-Corruption Purge
A large number of senior Communist Party reportedly closely investigate possible links between a former senior official Zhou Yongkang being watched for any sign of the test, are attending. 71 years before retiring in 2012, the Politburo Standing Committee, ranking member decision-making body of China, and previously served as pitcher internal security apparatus of China, and from 1999 to 2002 as head of the group in Sichuan.
He announced anti-corruption purge President Xi Jinping Zhou speculation will become the next target high profile has circulated in recent times.
Liu Han Chinese state media accused of gang operated with central government officials have hinted that political connections.