Why would China be executing one of its richest billionaires? Well, that’s because he was also charged with murder, fraud, extortion, gun-running, illegal detention, and running a ‘mafia-like’ gang.
Liu Han is one serious bad dude, but that’s not why he’s being executed. He’s been given a death sentence because he found himself on the wrong side in a battle for power within the Chinese Communist Party, one between Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and Liu Han’s political patron Zhou Yongkang.