Xinhua reported that Liu Han, former chairman of the Hanlong Group, was sentenced to death together with his younger brother, Liu Wei and three other associates, in May for "leading mafia-style crime and murder". ,
(Comment: Liu Han is believed to have had links to former security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who is currently under investigation. Sichuan was a power base of Zhou Yongkang, who was Party Secretary of Sichuan before becoming head of China's Public Security Ministry in 2003. In recent months, several top officials from Sichuan province have come under scrutiny.)
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