Wu Xuezhan, a former gang leader, was sentenced to 25 years on multiple charges, including organizing gang crimes, illegal detention and intentional injury, at a Shandong court on Friday.

The Dongchengfu District People's Court announced the sentence on Friday morning. Another 14 gang members of Wu were also sentenced.

Wu, 35, had used his members — some of whom were employees in his registered real estate companies in Guanxian county — to conduct gang-related offenses, such as using violence to collect debts and illegal detention, according to the court, which also ordered seizure of all his assets.

The gang drew public attention in March 2017 when Yu Huan, 22, injured some of the gangsters after he and his mother, Su Yinxia, were beaten and insulted.

Yu was given life imprisonment for intentional injury by the Liaocheng Intermediate People's Court in February last year after he stabbed four gangsters, who were also debt collectors. One of them, Du Zhihao, died in hospital.

Yu appealed to higher court as he said he and his mother were confronted by the debt collectors and he was protecting Su and himself in self-defense.

In June last year, the Shandong Provincial High People's Court reduced Yu's life sentence to five years for intentional injury.

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