Original title: Liu Qiang was sentenced for sexual assault at a party in Sydney, the defendant Xu was sentenced to four years in prison

Sina US stock news Beijing time on the 15th, according to foreign media reports, an Australian court last Friday sentenced Chinese real estate developer Xu Longwei (transliteration, Longwei Xu) to four years in prison, at least two and a half years in prison, because he attended theChinese billionaire Liu Qiangdong raped a young model at a party in Sydney.

The 45-year-old Liu Qiangdong, the founder and CEO of JD.com, was not accused of any wrongdoing in the case and had hired a lawyer to ask the court to keep his identity secret during the lawsuit.Evidence submitted to the court showed that he was only preparing food and entertaining guests at the 2015 dinner.But the case has drawn attention to the lifestyles of Chinese businesspeople abroad.

According to a Chinese woman who is the plaintiff, on December 26, 2015, she and Xu Longwei, whom she met for the first time, went to a party in a mansion in Sydney.All the men present (except Liu Qiangdong) drank with her, and in the end she was too drunk to walk.After the party, Xu Longwei did not send her home as previously said, but took her to the Shangri-La Hotel room and tried to sexually assault her.Afterwards, she called the police accompanied by her boyfriend.

It is reported that the people who appeared at the party at the multimillion-dollar penthouse that night were all guests of Liu Qiangdong.Liu Qiangdong hosted the birthday party for Xu Longwei and cooked dinner himself.

During the police interrogation, Xu Longwei once denied sexual assault, saying that maybe she just wanted a little money.Xu's lawyer, Winston Terracini SC, also denied his client's guilt.

In July this year, the District Court of New South Wales, Australia made a ruling on this sexual assault case. Xu Longwei was charged with 7 counts including forcibly having sex without the other party's permission and attacking the other party's face.

During the trial of Xu Longwei's case, Liu Qiangdong made two unsuccessful attempts to keep his name from the media.Previously, Liu Qiangdong himself had gotten into trouble over allegations of sexual assault in the United States.

On the day the Xu Longwei case was pronounced, Liu Qiangdong and his wife Zhang Zetian were photographed attending the wedding of the Queen's granddaughter in London, England, and the milk tea sister was mistaken for a Japanese princess. Earlier report: Liu Qiangdong, the founder of JD.com, was investigated in the sexual assault case in the US volume

Liu Qiangdong, founder of e-commerce giant JD.com, has been accused of sexual assault in the United States.A screenshot was circulated on the Internet yesterday, which is the charge record of the Minnesota State Police. A man named Qiang Dong Liu was arrested on the night of August 31 and released the next afternoon, pending formal prosecution. The suspect’s date of birth is the same as Liu’s.It is reported that Liu Qiangdong participated in an event at the University of Minnesota last week, and it was rumored that the victim was a Chinese female student at the school.JD.com issued a statement saying that Liu encountered false accusations during his business activities in the United States. After investigation by the police, there was no wrongdoing and the trip will continue.

After the news of Liu Qiangdong's involvement in sexual assault came out, it shocked people at home and abroad, and even the New York Times reported it immediately.JD.com is the second largest e-commerce company in China, after Alibaba.Forty-five-year-old Liu Qiangdong is the founder and CEO of JD.com, with a net worth of tens of billions of yuan. He is a young business leader in China.

Yesterday, a record on the website of the sheriff's office in Hennepin County, Minnesota, was circulated on the Internet that Qiang Dong Liu was arrested at 11:32 p.m. local time on August 31st.The man's date of birth was March 10, 1973, which was the same as Liu Qiangdong's date of birth disclosed on the website of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.The man was released at 4:05 p.m. on September 1, and the current status is "released pending complaint".

The website records show that the man was charged with "criminal sexual conduct" (criminal sexual conduct), and there was "probable cause" (Probable cause) to prove that the man committed the crime and was arrested.According to U.S. law, "reasonable grounds" for sexual crimes require the police to have objective evidence that criminal activities may have occurred, and mere premonitions or groundless complaints cannot constitute "reasonable grounds."

The victim of Liu Qiangdong's sexual assault case: was forced to have sex

The victim of JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong’s alleged sexual assault in the United States claimed that she was forced to have sex by Liu Qiangdong.

According to Reuters, Liu Qiangdong returned to her apartment in Minneapolis with the 21-year-old Chinese female student at the University of Minnesota on the 30th of last month.In the early morning of the next day, the girl sent a WeChat message telling her friend that I did not want to, and that I would find a way to escape tomorrow.She also told her friends not to call the police: He (Liu Qiangdong) will definitely suppress the matter, you underestimated his power.

The lawyer representing the female student, Wil Florin, confirmed that the WeChat message was indeed sent by the girl.

Liu Qiangdong was arrested by Minnesota police on suspicion of sexual assault on the 31st of last month, but was released the next day and returned to China.Local police completed a preliminary investigation into Liu Qiangdong's case last week and handed it over to prosecutors to decide whether to charge Liu.

Florin Roebig and Hang Associates, a law firm representing the victim girl, said in an email that her client had fully cooperated with the police investigation and was prepared to assist prosecutors.

Liu Qiangdong's lawyer, Jill Brisbois, said that Liu Qiangdong insisted on his innocence and would cooperate with the investigation.These allegations are not supported by the evidence, which we hope will be released to the public when the case is closed.

JD Spokesperson: We will prove that the WeChat information did not tell the whole truth

A spokesman for JD.com said that when more information is released, it will prove that the information in WeChat clearly does not tell the whole story.

At the time of the incident, Liu Qiangdong was studying a doctoral program in business at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. During this period, he and more than 20 people held a banquet at a local restaurant on the evening of August 30.According to the staff present and the restaurant's surveillance video, there were about 20 men at the dinner party, consuming large amounts of wine, sake and beer.

The victim girl told friends on WeChat that she was forced to drink a lot and said it was a trap.

According to people familiar with the matter, after the dinner, Liu Qiangdong and the victim girl first went to the house that Liu Qiangdong rented locally, but they did not enter the house.

Someone saw Liu Qiangdong pull the girl into the rented car, and finally the two returned to the girl's apartment.According to the WeChat message sent by the girl to her friend, Liu Qiangdong began to touch her in the car.She wrote: "I begged him not to...hellip;hellip; but he wouldn't listen.

People familiar with the matter said that after the police received the report, when they went to the girl's apartment on the morning of the 31st, Liu Qiangdong was there, but no one was arrested.

According to WeChat information, the girl told her friends afterwards that if she was alone, she would commit suicide immediately, but she couldn't bear the sadness of her parents.

Affected by the news, JD.com's U.S. stock fell more than 5% before the market yesterday, and fell below 5.4% at the beginning of the market.