Liu Qiangdong was arrested in handcuffs.(Internet)
JD.com founder and chairman Liu Qiangdong has been involved in sex crime allegations in the United States. With the release of the police report, more details have been revealed.
According to The Paper, citing the New York Times, on September 4, local time, the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA released a report on Liu Qiangdong's involvement in the case, and stated that Liu Qiangdong was involved in the case last Friday (August 31).) was arrested by the city's police on a rape allegation.
In addition, the police also released photos of Liu Qiangdong's arrest in handcuffs.
According to the report released by the police, the crime Liu Qiangdong is suspected of being involved in is rape, and the alleged crime is described as: a first-degree sexual crime, complete rape (CSCR-1, CSC-RAPE-COMPLETE), and the crime level is a first-degree felony.
Zhou Dongfa, a lawyer at Hongfa Law Firm in Minnesota, USA, analyzed to The Paper that in Minnesota, the minimum sentence for a first-degree sex crime is 144 months (12 years), and the possible sentence for a first-time offender is 144 months to 172 months.
Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John middot; Elder (John Elder) introduced that the report was written on the night Liu Qiangdong was arrested and was released because it was a public record.
We are going well.Elder said of the investigation that a lot has been done and there is still more to be done.
In the early hours of September 4, Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder (John Elder) stated that an active criminal investigation into the matter will continue.The suspect has been released and police will not seek to restrict his whereabouts, but the investigation will continue to move forward.
On September 4, local time, the stock price of JD.com (Nasdaq: JD), a domestic e-commerce giant listed in the United States, fell 5.97%.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a Minneapolis police spokesman said the alleged rape occurred at 1 a.m. on Friday (August 31).
Chuck Laszewski, spokesman for the Hennepin County Prosecutor's Office in Minneapolis, responded that once the case is referred by the Minneapolis Police Department, the Hennepin County Prosecutor's Office will begin an investigation.to the case file.Police are still investigating.Once the case is referred to us, we have three options: we can decide not to prosecute any offences; we can decide to press charges; or we can send it back to the police for further investigation, which usually comes with aQuestions we need answered before we make a decision.
Lawyer Yu Siming, senior partner of Shanghai Junyue MHP Law Firm, revealed that rape is a very serious crime in almost all countries today, but it is not so easy to determine whether rape exists.Although the judicial practice of China and the United States is slightly different in the specific aspects of the constituent elements of the crime of rape, there are two core elements in common: 1, against the will of the woman; 2, sexual relations have occurred.The process of proving the second element is relatively easy, but it is often difficult to prove whether the sexual relationship was against the will of the woman.
However, lawyer Yu Siming also said that in the United States, the process of criminal proceedings is complicated and lengthy. It takes several years for a case to be heard for the first time, and a considerable proportion of cases have not waited for the trial dateIt will end prematurely, for example, the evidence obtained by the police through the investigation is not enough to charge the client, or although charges are filed, the prosecutor and the defense lawyer have reached a plea bargaining in advance.
Yu Siming said: Assuming that you really want to be convicted, according to the principle of territorial jurisdiction, the local court in the United States should make a judgment and serve your sentence in a local prison in the United States.Since China and the United States do not share criminal record databases, the criminal records in the United States will not have any direct impact on the work and life of the parties in China.
