The case, involving a billionaire entrepreneur, riveted observers in China, where women alleging sexual wrongdoing by powerful men are often pilloried, silenced or both.
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on the tech barons claims another scalp as Richard Liu, founder of JD.com, China’s second-biggest ecommerce giant, steps down. Jane Lewis reports.
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How JD.com founder Richard Liu rebounded from a Minneapolis sex scandal to achieve a hat-trick of IPOs in Hong Kong Minghe Hu minghe.hu@scmp.com JD.com founder Richard Liu attends a business forum in Hong Kong in this file photo dated June 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters
Richard Liu Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, has emerged as one of the biggest winners in China s tech sector, with two successful public listings in Hong Kong and another in the pipeline, in what analysts are calling an impressive comeback after being mired in a sex scandal two and a half years ago.