Minnesota Student Sues China’s JD.com CEO Liu With Allegation of Rape

Minnesota Student Sues China’s JD.com CEO Liu With Allegation of Rape
Richard Liu, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce company JD.com, leaves the Great Hall of the People after the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5, 2018. Reuters
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A University of Minnesota student who said she was raped in August 2018 by Richard Liu, the chief executive officer of China’s e-commerce retailer JD.com Inc., filed a civil lawsuit against him in a Minneapolis court on April 16, nearly four months after prosecutors declined to press criminal charges.

Liu, through his lawyers, maintained his innocence throughout the law enforcement investigation, which ended in December.