Stay of sentence granted last year after he donated billions
The mainland yesterday executed a tycoon implicated in a murder but reportedly granted a stay of execution last year after he offered to donate billions of yuan in oil assets to the state.
According to the Supreme People's Court website, Yuan Baojing was given a lethal injection, along with his brother and a cousin, shortly after the Intermediate People's Court in Liaoyang , Liaoning province , announced a decision to carry out the execution.
The court handed down a death sentence to Yuan in January last year, and an appeal to the Liaoning Higher People's Court was rejected.
He was condemned to death for hiring his brother and two cousins to kill a former police officer who tried to blackmail him in October 2003.
Authorities approved a request by Yuan's wife, Zhuoma , and relatives of his brother, Yuan Baoqi , and his cousin, Yuan Baosen , to meet the trio before the execution, the report said.
Sources said Ms Zhuoma and Yuan's lawyer, Liu Jiazhong - who were not notified by the court in advance of the execution and found out through other means - were shocked at the final court ruling.