“Three kidnappers and 17 accomplices have been convicted of holding a businessman hostage and demanding a ransom of gold bars worth 50 million yuan (8.14 million U.S. dollars), a court said Friday.
Zhang Jingguang, Lai Yijin and Lai Changjin, who plotted and participated in kidnapping the businessman Zhang, a member of Shenzhen City People’s Congress, received the death penalty with two years’ reprieve, life imprisonment, and 15 years in jail respectively at Shenzhen City Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday.”
Source:20 convicted following gold-ransom kidnap | Shanghai Daily
