On the 80th day of Liu Qiangdong's case, US prosecutors delayed making the decision of the prosecute, Reuters released more details today, the move by the female student caused the prosecution to delay making the decision of prosecute
Reuters released further details of Liu Qiangdong's sexual invasion case on Nov. 21, local time.
August 30, Liu Qiangdong was revealed suspected of sexual invasion. In the car, Liu Qiangdong began to take off the girl's clothes, the victim tried to stop his behavior.
Liu Qiangdong the night the girl called the police twice, but in the second time to the police that she was raped by Liu. This detail was considered by the prosecution to be a fear of affecting the jury's decision.
In the early morning of the 31st, police went to the girls' apartment after receiving the police report, according to a Minnesota police report. But at that time, the girl did not say to the police that she had been raped.
The police then left the scene. But Reuters had previously reported that the victims were worried that Liu Qiangdong would retaliate against her. But less than 24 hours later, Liu Qiangdong was again subpoenaed by the police. This time, the victim said she was raped by Liu Qiangdong.
Liu was immediately arrest.
Liu was imprisoned for about 17 hours before being released by police to fly home. According to Reuters, the local prosecutor is currently weighing the evidence at hand. This evidence is not confined to the testimony of both sides.
The evidence prosecutors need to consider includes the fact that the police initially concluded that no crime had been committed and whether the victim had initially hesitated against Liu prosecute in response to the two different claims of what had happened that night.
Some law experts said the initial hesitation of the victims could prevent prosecutor from filing charges because they were worried about how the jury would see the case.
Former New York sexual crime prosecutor Roger Canaff said: prosecute's decision has a lot to do with the victim's reaction. However, some people still believe that this will not have much impact.
The prosecution can still file a case against prosecute.
One Pennsylvania lawer, who specialises in the sexual invasion case, said "prosecutors can interpret it by another jury as the victim's fear of reprisals, and the female victim's desire to avoid it because of humiliation."
As prosecutor worked to push the case forward, Reuters reported that they had found new details about the night of the incident. After the alleged rape case, Liu Qiangdong's personal assistant sought a settlement with the victim from the middleman, according to a statement given to the police by the victim's girl student. But the middleman did not respond to Liu Qiangdong's request.
Representatives of the University of Minnesota also declined to discuss the case further, citing a violation of student privacy law.
According to police records, rape occurred hours after Liu Qiangdong and the victim left a Japanese restaurant. After dinner, the girl said she was drunk and needed someone to help her go home.
According to the victim's lawer Florin, Liu Qiangdong, a personal assistant named Alice Zhang.Alice Zhang, told the police that she had taken Liu Qiangdong to the car with the girl that night.
Zhang said she initially tried to separate Liu Qiangdong from the girls. But Liu Qiangdong told her, "Don't bother me," and began to touch the girl in the back seat.
According to Florin and another insider, Zhang sat in the front row of the car, turned on the radio and removed the rearview mirror.
But when Reuters made a private call to Zhang in China for more information, the other side denied it was Zhang, and quickly hung up when it heard that the call was an inquiry into the case.
Liu Qiangdong's lawer did not respond or comment on this detail.
The murdered girl told the police that she was very scared and was not sure where she was. She thought she could "sit down and talk to Liu Qiangdong" and persuade him to take her home.
The girl said in the car, she once said to Liu Qiangdong: "I know you are a good man." You can calm down so you know what you're doing now. "
When they arrived at the girl's apartment, Liu told the driver and assistant that he would be back soon. Liu spent about four hours in the girl's apartment, including taking a bath, and then lying naked on her bed, according to one insider.
The assaulted girl said she repeatedly rejected Liu Qiangdong's offer and tried to get him to leave. "he tried to drag me into the shower," the assaulted girl told the police in a recorded interview.
"I tried my best to resist him."
According to one insider, the girl also told the police that he finally held her down and rape her while she was wearing some clothes.
The girl finally used Liu Qiangdong's semen on the sheet as evidence.
According to the victim's interview, Liu Qiangdong's other assistant, Vivian Yang, contacted her the day after the incident.
The injured student indicated to the assistant that he wished to talk about what happened yesterday. The victim's lawer showed social app's chat records and confirmed the authenticity of the conversation.
Police used part of the social app records as part of the investigation, according to people familiar with the case. She told Yang assistants that she wanted to seek "justice" and was considering hiring lawer.
According to police information, the victim school girl once said she thought Liu Qiangdong would apologize to her.
"you said what you said, and then we said what we said." The assistant said to the girl and was recorded by the girl's friend.
Reuters reported that it was not known what the middleman was talking to the victim or whether the middleman had hinted at the assistant's request to the murdered girl.
Is the middleman aware of what happened that night and promised to act as a rapprochement? It is still unfathomable. The victim told the police she rejected the other party's offer, saying she only wanted to talk to Liu Qiangdong in person, accompanied by friends.
Around 10:30 on Friday night, Liu Qiangdong's assistant, Yang, finally agreed to take Liu Qiangdong to the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota to meet the woman, according to social app. When Liu arrived, the girl was presenting the facts to the police, who on the spot at the school arrest Liu Qiangdong.
The next day, around 4 p.m. on September 1, Liu Qiangdong was released, awaiting investigation. Journalist (Reuters) contacted Yang, an assistant surnamed in China, who said it had referred the issue to the company's public relations arm.
A few hours after his release, Liu Qiangdong returned to China on a private plane.
According to Minneapolis's Star News, Liu Qiangdong's case has revealed some details of the case.
The Star News learned that just as prosecutor, Henneping County, was assessing whether Liu Qiangdong had been charged with sexual invasion, the victim told police that Liu Qiangdong had drunk the night of the crime and was later met by Liu's sexual invasion, in her apartment. Although she always pleaded with Liu Qiangdong not to do so.
Liu Qiangdong, 45, founder of Jingdong, has more than 300m clients and an estimated net worth of $5.4 billion.
The victimized girl is Chinese and wants to study for a doctorate. Her lawer, will Flynn (Wil Florin), said she was cooperating fully with the police investigation and ready to cooperate with prosecutor's work.
"I'm just an ordinary student, you have a family, I don't want to do this," she pleaded with Liu Qiangdong, citing insider, who was quoted by the Star News as saying that the victim described the incident on the night of August 31.
"but he wouldn't listen," she went on to say to the police.
The Star then analyzed the victim's message to others in his apartment near the school.
She texted a good friend in Chinese: "I was forced." I want to run, "said Liu Qiangdong, who is sleeping in her bed now." but I can't. How could I know that Liu Qiangdong would come to me. I'm just an ordinary girl. Nor do I envy the rich; I have always begged him not to touch me. "
Liu, through his assistant, booked a dinner for himself and 15 other students at Origami, a local Japanese restaurant, according to insider.
The victims and 10 other volunteers were invited to dinner that evening. The victim was told that the dinner was held to thank the volunteer students.
The victim agreed, but in the end she found that she was the only invited volunteer. After discussion, she brought another male friend to the dinner.
There were about 20 people at the dinner, including Liu Qiangdong, victimized girls, girls' friends, and three female assistants to senior executives. The victim was sitting on the edge of Liu Qiangdong, while the assistant and her friend sat at another table.
The victim, lawer Flynn, confirmed that there was a lot of alcohol on the night of the dinner.
"they talked to my client over and over again," Flynn said. "she said she couldn't refuse, and she was getting a little drunk."
On two occasions, said Flynn, an assistant to Liu Qiangdong asked her male friend to accompany her out and buy some red wine. Nearby boutiques also billed the Star, showing that they bought 32 bottles of red wine that night for $3600.
After that, a male friend of the victim received a call asking him to pick up another Chinese executive to attend the dinner, the source said. The executive was about an hour's drive from Origami. Then the male friend left the dinner.
After the dinner, the victim wanted to go home and asked Liu Qiangdong's assistant to call a taxi for her. As she walked out of the restaurant, Liu Qiangdong's driver pulled her into a black SUV. She didn't think much about it at first when she thought it was a taxi called by her assistant. Later, Liu Qiangdong also got on the car.
Liu Qiangdong's assistant sat in the front row and the driver took them to a mansion in southern Minneapolis, sources said. After getting out of the car, the victim found that she did not know the place, and then again proposed that she wanted to go home and refused to enter the mansion.
Soon they returned to the car.
"he pulled him into the car," she later texted to her friend. "in the car, he started to do something about me. I told him to stop. He wouldn't listen."
At about 11:00 in the evening, the driver took them to the girl's apartment. After she got out of the car, Liu Qiangdong followed and told the driver and assistant that he would be back in a minute. The girl opened the apartment door, Liu Qiangdong followed in.
The victim told police that in the apartment, he tried to take off her coat despite her resistance. Liu Qiangdong told her that she could be a woman like Wendi Deng, she said.
"I kept telling him not to," she told the police. She also said that Liu Qiangdong forced off her underwear and pushed her down on the bed.
"I struggled in bed for a long time, and finally got away from him and ran into the living room and put on his clothes," she said. "in the end, he pushed me down on the bed and pressed on me. He was heavy. I tried to push him away, but he was too heavy, and then he rape me. "
After that, the victim told her friends what had happened on social app.
"Liu Qiangdong is in my bed," she wrote around 2 a.m. on Friday. "he forced me to sleep last night and I couldn't escape," she added. "I didn't volunteer, I resisted."
"try and call the police, see what he can do?" A friend suggested.
"he's rich and powerful. Don't underestimate him," replied the victim. "Don't call the police."
The 21-year-old female victim also told her about sexual invasion with her male friends who accompanied her that night, according to sources. Then he came to her apartment and called the police outside.
At 3 a.m., the police arrived at the apartment, but the victim said she did not want the police to intervene in the investigation. As a result, police took Liu Qiangdong and sent him back to the hotel.
The girl's friends eventually persuaded her to go to the hospital for an sexual invasion check-up and accompanied her to the hospital, the source said.
Flynn said university doctorate staff subsequently learned of the sexual invasion incident and called the police. On Friday night, they found the girl victim at school, who told the story.
Just that night, Liu Qiangdong was taken away by the police waiting for him.
Insider said the girls were still worried and unwilling to investigate further.
Liu Qiangdong was released on Saturday. Just that night, after further persuasion from her friends, she finally decided to prosecute Liu Qiangdong and recontacted the police. The next day, Liu Qiangdong returned to China.
Liu Qiangdong's lawer Gil Poles said her client had not committed any wrongdoing.
The case has drawn attention from China and the United States since Liu Qiangdong was revealed to be suspected of sexual invasion staying in the United States by police arrest on September 1. On Sept. 20, after a two-week silence, the daily journalist received an e-mail from the (Hennepin County) police station in Hennepin county that Liu Qiangdong's preliminary investigation had been completed and forwarded to prosecutors.
Minnesota police have completed a preliminary investigation into Liu Qiangdong's case and prosecutors will review all evidence and decide whether to charge Liu, prosecutor Freeman (Mike Freeman), Hennebin County, Ming, said in an email. But no deadline for prosecute was given at the time.
The case of Liu Qiangdong has attracted attention from China and the United States, but in recent weeks after the incident, police and prosecutors have been quiet, and many people and the media have been waiting for the final result. A lot of gossip and false news came out during the period.
Numerous media also made a lot of trouble on the victims, unconfirmed, exposed a few suspected Liu Qiangdong victims photos. Finally, it was found that the girl in the picture had never been abroad at all.
On Sept. 6, Jingdong responded for the first time on the company's English website to four big questions about Liu Qiangdong's alleged sexual invasion case, and admitted that chairman Liu Qiangdong was suspected of being arrested by police arrest in the United States at sexual invasion. However, the news has not been updated on the Chinese website.
(screenshot of Jingdong's official website)
Police would have released the results of the investigation on Friday, Sept. 7, but the police were cautious because of the high complexity of the case. Police said: the case is under further investigation and no results have been reached.
Figure sources: message screenshot
Liu Qiangdong's lawer Friedberg (Joe Friedberg) said Thursday in the United States time that the evidence available in the case is in Liu's favour, and he believes that the case will be closed by Friday.
"Mr. Liu didn't do anything wrong, and I bet on my lawer license that Mr. Liu will not be charged," said Liu Qiangdong's lawer.
But now the result, seems to have been hit in the face.
On the evening of August 30, female students from the case attended a dinner party for Liu Qiangdong and his entourage.
On the evening of September 1, the female student asked another staff member of the school to report to the police and took Liu Qiangdong to the second floor of Carlson School of Management. Liu Qiangdong arrived and was taken away from the classroom by the police.
On Sept. 2, major media broke out that "Jingdong CEO Liu Qiangdong is suspected of sexual invasion by the United States police arrest," Jingdong official release called this "false accusation," however, the police released the results with its conflict.
Arrested at 11:32 local time on August 31st.
September 1, 4 p.m. Local time Liu Qiangdong was released, and returned to participate in related activities.
So what happened before Liu Qiangdong went to prison? The case was reinstated on the basis of witnesses as follows:
In the evening of August 30, 2018, the Origami Uptown restaurant in Minneapolis was greeted by an unusual crowd of guests identified as Liu Qiangdong. Liu Qiangdong is here to participate in the in-service doctoral Program in Business Administration, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, (DBA).
Girl A (alias), the only young woman to be a guest from the University of Minnesota, A claims to have transferred two weeks ago. The guests were divided into one big, one small and two tables. There were about 10 people on the large table, including Liu Qiangdong.
In the evening, Little A came to the Origami restaurant and pulled B (alias) out of vigilance. After arriving at the scene, Xiao A was arranged to sit next to Liu Qiangdong, witnesses said, A was heavily advised to drink.
The restaurant bill for the evening showed that at the dinner, 12 bottles were ordered for the first time and 20 bottles for the second.
According to the bill, the total cost of two drinks is $3623.33. In addition, banquet meals cost no less than $2200.
(drink bill that night)
August 31, then the victim A and Liu Qiangdong contact, want to talk in person, at the school's suggestion, A choose to call the police.
Wearing a black T-shirt, Liu was sitting in the University of Minnesota lounge, waiting for A, when two police officers opened the door on suspicion of rape taking him away.
Some media subsequently connected Liu Qiangdong to the prison where Liu Qiangdong was held. Prison guards said "I don't know Liu Qiangdong."
These days, US prosecutors will decide whether to prosecute Liu Qiangdong. From the crime to date, every release of the details are worrying. Every rumor could spill dirty water on innocent victims.
So far, the details of the case, from American police to national media investigations, are in good agreement with one of the day's earliest reports.
Justice will not be absent, and there will eventually be an account of the case.