{"id":1840,"date":"2012-01-04T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:33:01","slug":"china-tycoon-ate-poisoned-cat-meat-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/china-tycoon-ate-poisoned-cat-meat-stew\/","title":{"rendered":"China tycoon ‘ate poisoned cat-meat stew’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poisoned cat-meat stew is suspected to have been used to kill a billionaire in southern China.<\/p>\n

Police have detained a local official in Guangdong province in connection with the sudden death of Long Liyuan on 23 December.<\/p>\n

The official, Huang Guang, is suspected of adding a toxic plant to the stew at a restaurant where they were eating.<\/p>\n

A police statement said the two were involved in a dispute after Mr Huang allegedly embezzled money from Mr Long.<\/p>\n

Mr Huang, an agriculture official in Bajia, took Mr Long, who ran a forestry company, to visit a piece of woodland on 23 December, said the statement.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, the two went to a local restaurant to share a local delicacy, slow-boiled cat-meat stew. A friend of Mr Long’s was also present.<\/p>\n

Mr Huang is alleged to have added the plant Gelsemium elegans to the cat-meat dish.<\/p>\n

Local media say Mr Long was taken to hospital after feeling dizzy and sick, and later suffered a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

However the other two diners survived.<\/p>\n

A local newspaper reported that Mr Long’s friend had eaten only a little because the dish tasted “more bitter” than usual.<\/p>\n

Police initially detained the owner of the restaurant on suspicion of serving unsanitary food, AP news agency said.<\/p>\n

However Mr Long’s family did not believe it was a simple case of food poisoning and pressed police to investigate further as well as offering a $16,000 reward for information, the agency said.<\/p>\n

Source BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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