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JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape (bloomberg.com)
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.
Police haven’t charged Liu, who’s now back at work in China
Look at what happened to Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Meanwhile I heard that Harvey Weinstein is still out on bail.
How could she even tell it was in?
This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
Good luck getting him extradited from China.
Never ever come to the US or UK. You can do all the same rich people things in Hong Kong or Singapore. Absolutely no need to step foot in shady Western traps.
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.
Table-ized A.I.
Just lyin again
Ok, we have the who and when, but: What is JD.com, why is it important, where is this (country, city), and how will this change anything?
...or was it legitimate rape?
That's why Nanking is a tourist zone.
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 angle thrown in, to be worth posting.
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.
She was Asian too. So they would have been anatomically compatible.
Considering how cavernous yankee hookers are, it'd be hard for her to tell from anyone at all. White dudes aren't much better with only a 1/4 inch above the asian average. I'm guessing layers of fat slamming up against her would be a sign. Black dudez might not have as much a problem, but a sure sign would be from the gorilla grunts.
Strangely, both of those cases where the responsibility of the same DA...really activates the almonds.
Don't you know all billionaires from east of Berlin are "oligarchs" and therefore bad guys?
He raped a panda you insensitive clod.
But the liberals media constantly says every Catholic on the planet is a child rapist.
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.
It is pretty much what Musk said. I guess it is OK for liberal 'news journalists' to make unfounded and unjustified accusations, but not a white male millionaire who has fallen out of favor with the in crowd.
Name calling is just how people argue now a days. Whereas in the past people would discuss issues, today we just call each other pedophile, racist, homophobe, NAZI, or snowflake. There really is nothing much behind it except Musk is keeping up with popular culture and has honed his debating skill from the same people that post here.
Now shut up and die, you evil communist, child molesting NAZI, snowflake.
Wow. A fascist and a misogynist, nice combo, there.
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 except stay in a place that is not so bat shit crazy.
America just gave Louis CK his career back. Americans support James Gunn who said things like "I like when little boys touch me in my silly place. Shh!". Dan Harmon, creator of Rick and Morty, made an animated short about cutting children and having sex with them. Apparently there's nothing wrong with anything they did, so I don't see this CEO getting in trouble. Or maybe you have to be a popular entertainer to get a pass on sex crimes? Either way his chances are good of getting off scot free.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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 the normal outcome. Play the fool in Australia, well get one pass, repeat in the US, well, more of an individual burden to the government than a benefit. So what is his social score now.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
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.
"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.
Yes, it's still legit rape if he used canola oil as lube. Duh.
I had wondered if eating canola oil made people into rapists. Apparently it does!
Funny how Gunn lost his job over stuff like that. Should he have included the /s tag to let people know that he was joking?
Hell, Family Guy has featured a pedophile character for years, and nobody's throwing that off the air. Wait two, if you count Quagmire.
He was never charged with a crime. What exactly should stop him from leaving the country? There are literally no legal proceedings against him.
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.
Japanese men tend to be under-sized, other Asian ethnicities are the same as Caucasians.
ALL "date rape" is fake rape.
It's time to end this Puritan insanity.
Go home, Puritan Progressive shitlord. No on here wants what you're selling.
Dude, that shit was done by the Hollande family. Wife gets to be head of IMF and husband gets to be head of France.
If a poor man raped a wealthy girl, he'd be skinned alive
But when it is a wealthy BILLIONAIRE, like that JD.com scumbag, raped a poor woman (or two, or three), the scumbag WOULD BE RELEASED .
The law never fails to work for the rich.
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 same thing as other criminal gangs, they handle it internally instead of using the legal system.
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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You leave Pandas out of this, or else I'll have Natalie Portman pour Hot Grits down your pants!
Don't be silly, not every catholic. Only the priests.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You're so pre-millennium, it ain't even funny.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
He was never charged with a crime. What exactly should stop him from leaving the country? There are literally no legal proceedings against him.
Are you a full retard? The headline says he was arrested for it, you don't get arrested unless you're a suspect
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.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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
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.
He was arrested, arraigned, but then allowed to leave the country while the investigation is ongoing? Whatever happened to, "don't leave town"?
Serious accusations.....
There should be a guaranteed sentence for him, unless it's false. Then it should be a guaranteed sentence from her, plus a public apology.
The rich write the laws. They also pay all the taxes.
Until he's been convicted he isn't a rapist also. If it comes out she is a liar, will you apologize for jumping to conclusions?
This. It's a kindergarten mindset. Everyone is acting like children.
"We want to be treated equally, but more equally than men"
"We're not racists, we just hate white people"
Step one, grow up. Just because you're of legal age doesn't mean you're mentally adult. If you think you can hate a group of people based on skin color, you're juvenile.
all-munds.
youre penis is soooo small!!!
Let us cry for the poor raepy billionaires.
Go fucking hang you traitor to freedom.
You can get arrested on mere accusation.
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Hey... Anonymous Coward.. If you could go spend the evening with Bill Gates then claim rape and get paid 100 Million to keep your lying mouth shut, you would jump at the chance. Every woman jumps at the chance to do the same.
False rape accusations will proliferate as long as there is every incentive for profit and no punishment when proven false.
The ultra rich being bad people doesn't need an inference, it's a truism.
No it's not. I think you need to reread what you just wrote and ask yourself if you seriously meant to write that.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Maybe these rich people need to keep better company?
You realize puritans were the first people to come to America.
The fact that this got modded to +1, tells me someone on this forum is mad that the world is starting to catch onto their bullshit and they are scared.
The worlds changing, keep trying to stop it tho, we will leave you behind.
People only care about what you can give them. You can be a shit-rotten human being as along as you keep your distance and provide them with something they value.
For Americans, this is doubly true.
If that model, Aria Grande Latte or whatever her name is, published a full nude spread tomorrow, every guy in the US that hasn't already forgiven her because they are pervs who wish they fucked a woman that (supposedly) hot when they were 17, would likely forgive her because erections.
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.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Victim Blaming, really??
You sound like a leftward, foaming at the mouth.