21 Facts About Liu Han

Liu Han was a Chinese billionaire businessman, the former chairman of the conglomerate Hanlong Group, with interests in power generation and mining.

Liu Han's assets were officially valued at 40 billion yuan.

Liu Han was convicted of murder, running a mafia-style gang, and many other charges, and executed in February 2015.

Liu Han was born in 1965 in Guanghan, Sichuan province, the middle child in a family with three sons and two daughters.

Liu Han's father, Liu Zhangke, was a veteran of the Korean War, who worked as a secondary school physics teacher after leaving the army.

Liu Han entered the commodity market in the mid-1990s, trading soy beans and steel between 1994 and 1997, which earned him hundreds of millions of yuan.

Liu Han offered a former policeman, Wang Xing, 160,000 yuan for Liu's life.

Liu Han built two hydroelectric stations in Ngawa in 2001.

Liu Han sold the stations in 2005 for 500 million yuan to a British Virgin Islands company, which then resold them to a subsidiary of Datang Power for 2.7 billion yuan only two months later.

Hanlong bid $1.3 billion for Sundance Resources, another Australian mining company, but the deal collapsed after Liu Han was arrested in March 2013 on multiple charges.

Liu Han owned more than 70 subsidiary companies with business in energy, mining, real estate, finance, and securities.

Liu Han's assets were officially valued at 40 billion yuan.

Liu Han was arrested in March 2013, only months after Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, China's paramount leader.

The Liu Han brothers were tried at the Xianning Intermediate People's Court in Hubei province, and sentenced to death in May 2014.

Liu Han was deprived of his political rights for life, and ordered to forfeit all of his assets.

Liu Han was found guilty on thirteen charges, including murder, running casinos and a mafia-like gang, and selling firearms.

Liu Han gained fame in China in the aftermath of the Great Sichuan earthquake of 2008, in which thousands of children died when several schools built by the state collapsed.

In contrast, the school Liu Han built withstood the quake and all of its students survived the disaster unharmed.

Liu Han made major donations in the subsequent relief efforts.

Liu Han had a passion for cars, and boasted that he owned 80 luxury cars.

Liu Han was an avid gambler who sometimes gambled all night long.