JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape (bloomberg.com) 116
JD.com's billionaire founder, Liu Qiangdong, is under investigation for a suspected rape in a weekend incident that led to his arrest in Minnesota. He was reportedly in Minneapolis for his studies since he is a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. According to the Financial Times and Star-Tribune, the case involves a Chinese student at the college. Bloomberg reports: Liu was brought in at 11:32 p.m. Aug. 31 on an accusation of "criminal sexual conduct" and released just more than 16 hours later, according to arrest records. Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder said the case is being investigated as a rape, but authorities decided not to keep Liu in custody and haven't imposed any travel restrictions while conducting their investigation. Police responded to a location Friday night, found Liu and another individual, took photos and arrested the CEO, Elder said. Liu, 45, returned to China after his release and was at work Tuesday at JD.com, the country's largest e-commerce company after Alibaba.
Per Bloomberg and other sources (Score:2)
Police haven’t charged Liu, who’s now back at work in China
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He has a hot wife [google.com], 19 years his junior, and two young children.
His wife, Zhang Zetian, was well known in China before their marriage, and is a successful businesswoman in her own right.
He may have some 'splaining to do back in Beijing.
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"Dear wife, google title nine, sexual misconduct and be horrified at this backwards puritan insanity they have going in the States".
Explanation done. Wife horrified, advices husband not to hire any women from US, and avoid being in the same room with them without keeping the door open.
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Demonstrating once more why rape accusation victims should have anonymity.
At least he doesn't have a boss that'll ask him awkward questions, and is in a country where his female employees wont sue the company for forcing them to work with an accused rapist.
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Of course they haven't. Note how it was a Chinese student accusing a Chinese businessman who was visiting from China.
So, either the Chinese government did this as a way of warning Richard/Liu that he cannot escape their control even in the US...
Of the US government did it as a warning to China that not even their richest and most powerful are safe...
or, 3rd option, the guy is human garbage and really was about to get jiggy with or without it (consent).
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Be careful if you are rich/powerful visitor in USA (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Be careful if you are rich/powerful visitor in (Score:5, Insightful)
Look at what happened to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
His career was destroyed and then the charges were dropped. So he was punished despite being convicted of nothing. So much for "presumption of innocence".
Meanwhile I heard that Harvey Weinstein is still out on bail.
As he should be. He hasn't been convicted of anything (yet).
We should not complain when rich people are treated fairly. We should complain when people, rich or poor, are treated unfairly.
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His career was destroyed
That's a flat out fabrication. The guy is currently on the board of a bank, and adviser to two governments. After losing his job at the IMF he also went on the lecture circuit and then joined a (now bankrupt) hedge fund which became " Leyne, Strauss-Kahn and Partners".
That is not by any stretch of the imagination a "destroyed career".
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Right... so if you are an exec of Burger King, getting fired then finding work as a restaurant team leader at McDonald is not "destroying a career", and thinking otherwise is a fabrication. The scope of his downfall is similar.
Mere few decades ago. false accusation of an affair were the modus operandi of the Right; false accusations of rape and "harassment" are favoured weapon of the Left today.
Re: Be careful if you are rich/powerful visitor in (Score:2)
Right... so if you are an exec of Burger King, getting fired then finding work as a restaurant team leader at McDonald is not "destroying a career", and thinking otherwise is a fabrication. The scope of his downfall is similar.
Um... err... wut
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Let us cry for the poor raepy billionaires. Go fucking hang you traitor to freedom.
The biggest problem for freedom is when those in power can destroy anyone they want. No matter if it applies to Strauss-Kahn or some beggar. He isn't the nicest kind of person, but he dared to act in a way not liked by the US -- that was the reason for staging the accusation, not any misconduct of some kind.
If your country stoops to such methods, you're no better than Putin's fascist Russia.
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Patrick Kane case was full of BS (Score:2)
"significant material inconsistencies" between the woman's claims and those of other witnesses, although he did not detail those discrepancies. He said there was no proof she had been penetrated, an element required under New York law to bring a rape charge.
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This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
JD.com [wikipedia.org]
It is the world's 3rd biggest ecommerce site, after Alibaba and Amazon.
If Jeff Bezos was arrested, would you still consider it "not news"?
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This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
JD.com [wikipedia.org]
It is the world's 3rd biggest ecommerce site, after Alibaba and Amazon.
If Jeff Bezos was arrested, would you still consider it "not news"?
Do average Chinese people care about every move that Jeff Bezos makes?
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Do average Chinese people care about every move that Jeff Bezos makes?
Slashdot is not a site for "average" people.
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This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
It's a big website! So it's "tech"!
A man, (allegedly) sexually assaulting a woman , in tech!!!
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Re: One law for the rich and the other for the poo (Score:2)
Which leads me to believe that anon really stands for Al-Anon.
A support group for loved ones of alcohol abusers? I'm not so sure the metaphor holds: it would require them to have loved ones.
Not the first time (Score:2, Informative)
He got into a similar snafu in Australia a couple of years ago. That suggests he at least keeps playing too close to the line in terms of risking accusations. That's not necessarily saying he's guilty, just that he is doing something that invites accusations.
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Being a billionaire?
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Hint: those are not the same thing, and billionaires generally don't need to be sexually predatory. Human females are hypergamic, and therefore throw themselves all over men with peak status traits, such as extreme wealth. If anything, someone in his position has to reject advances of opposite sex too aggressively.
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Careful, nothing is worse than the wrath of a woman rejected.
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Which is why billionaires tend to be highly selective with what women they allow close, and why there's a massive competition among the most attractive women on who gets to get close.
It's a self-selecting competition, where women compete among each other for favours of the top man. And top man simply gets to select from the cream of the crop at will, and should any woman show weakness, her own competitors will tear her down long before billionaire has to do anything about it.
Which is why billionaires in gen
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That's not how human attraction works. It's well documented that men go for signs of fertility in women and women go for signs of status in men.
As in women are attracted to status symbols in men. Billionaires can afford the highest status among men, and as a result are the most attractive among men. And most attractive people don't get cheated on with even remotely the same amount of frequency as your average man does.
Stop thinking TV dramas have any kind of relation to reality and read books on relevant hu
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No he didn't. He was never accused of anything in that case. He just didn't want his name associated in a court case about sexual assault, and was denied by an Australian court.
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Well, okay, a rape (allegedly) happened at one of his parties. He was not accused of rape himself then. I stand corrected. Thanks.
Counterfeit (Score:2, Insightful)
Reminds me of a joke. A prostitute walks into a bar and hands over a 100 dollar note to the bartender and asks for a drink. Bartender says the note is counterfeit. She shouts " I have been raped!!"
Its obvious that he is hosting parties with Escorts and then there are some disputes on what was paid for and what was not.
Re:Not the first time (Score:4, Informative)
Straight from the story:
>Earlier this year, a guest at a party Liu hosted in downtown Sydney was convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow guest after the event. There was no accusation of any misconduct by Liu. The billionaire lost a legal attempt to keep his name out of the records. Over the weekend, JD said it will take legal action against the publishing of untrue reports or rumors.
Good to see that spreading false rumours that are clearly debunked in the linked story still gets happily modded up on slashdot as "insightful".
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But the liberals media constantly says every Catholic on the planet is a child rapist.
No they don't.
They may not say that exactly, but the strongly hint at it, and suggest that if you believe in Peter's church, you may not be raping everyone you see, but then again you probably are.
No, they don't do that either.
Maybe your source of what is reported on 'liberal' media isn't first hand. You should try to check what they actually say instead of relying on someone else to tell you.
What the media doesn't say but that I say is that the Catholic church have been protecting child rapists for a long time and keeps doing it.
Whenever they find out that one of their priests are raping children they cover it up instead of reporting it to the authorities.
Essentially they are doing the
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Don't be silly, not every catholic. Only the priests.
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Yeah, it seems pretty clear-cut to me; either the guy did "marry" a 12 year old child, or he didn't.
The accusation contains a considerably high level of specificity regarding what is accused. Not exactly a he-said, he-said.
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Just lucky I guess. I try to avoid advertising and apparently I successfully avoided theirs. I have never heard of them even a little bit. Sounds like their marketing department is at fail.
What does him being a billionaire have to do with (Score:2)
Why does the title need to describe him as a billionaire? Is that to make the class envy types despise him? Or to make an inference to really rich people being bad people?
Besides that, why is this even on Slashdot? If he's convicted, it might be a story (as a CEO of a tech company no one outside of China has heard of). Until then, we are innocent until proven guilty in the US (not China) and this really is a non-story for the average nerd. Seems way to sensationalist, especially with the billionaire
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Pretty interesting note in that story. Arrested on rape allegations and allowed to leave the country and go to a country without extradition treaties, now how did that happen. Innocent or guilty, easy to guess, comes back innocent, stays in China well, we can all guess exactly why.
Question is, is he safer here or in China. Become an embarrassment to the government of China and well your company will survive dependent upon the connections around you but you might not. Prosecuted on corruption charges is th
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No males should step foot in the land of the free (Score:1)
We have an epidemic of rape going on. Males are constantly raping helpless girls. They are raping them with their actions and thoughts. It is pretty much impossible to not rape a girl. If I say hi to a girl, I have raped her with my mouth. If i look at a girl, I rape her with my eyes. If i ignore her, I rape her by ignoring her.
It is kind of like being a racist. It is not possible to not be a racist if you are white, and not possible to not rape girls if you have a penis. Nothing you can do about it
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No, not all date rape is fake. The moment the girl says or indicates that she wants you to stop, you stop or it's rape.
It's not difficult. Well, it can be if she times it really badly, but the principle is basic enough that even you should be able to understand it: Girl says no, you don't fuck her.
Being on a date has nothing to do with it.
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They know. This IS bullshit. Sometimes they want to say no the next week. Then it's rape? NOPE.
Some women think any sex with a man is rape.
So how to say no? How about please stop, it hurts. Ow. Not hard.
Things that encourage - fuck me harder, make me scream! God you are so huge and like a rock! Let me ride you like the stallion you are.
All things I've heard.
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You're so pre-millennium, it ain't even funny.