The Night JD.com CEO was Accused of Rape in Minnesota

The Night JD.com CEO was Accused of Rape in Minnesota
JD.com founder Richard Liu attends a business forum in Hong Kong, China on June 9, 2017. Bobby Yip/Reuters
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MINNEAPOLIS/NEW YORK—With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student sent a WeChat message to a friend in the middle of the night. She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him.
“I was not willing,” she wrote in Chinese on the messaging application around 2 a.m. on Aug. 31. “Tomorrow I will think of a way to escape,” she wrote, as she begged the friend not to call police.