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China sentences Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years for rape

China sentences Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years for rape

The court said investigation showed that between Nov and Dec 2020, the former member of K-pop band EXO raped three women.
25 Nov, 2022

A Beijing court sentenced Canadian singer Kris Wu on Friday to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, just over a year after his arrest in China, where he was born and built a lucrative career.

The court in the district of Chaoyang said investigation showed that from November to December 2020, the 32-year-old, who is also known as Wu Yifan, had raped three women.

“Wu Yifan took advantage of three drunken women … at his home,” the court said on its official WeChat account.

A former member of K-pop group EXO, the superstar returned to China in 2014 to pursue a solo career.

Wu was detained on July 31 last year after an 18-year-old Chinese student publicly accused him of inducing her and other girls, some of them younger than 18, to have sex with him.

At the time, the student told media Wu lured her into having sex when she was 17, after having plied her with liquor.

The court also found him guilty of the crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity in July 2018, it said.

The Canadian embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, though state media said its officials had attended the sentencing.

He was also ordered to pay 600 million yuan ($83.77 million) for hiding personal income and other tax-related offences, the tax bureau said.

Wu evaded 95 million yuan of tax from 2019 to 2020 by hiding personal income through domestic and foreign affiliated enterprises, and underpaid taxes of 84 million yuan, authorities said.

At the time of his detention, Wu was an ambassador for 15 brands, such as Bulgari, Lancome, Louis Vuitton and Porsche, all of which immediately severed ties with him.

The court said Wu would be deported, although lawyers in China have said such deportations typically take place after completion of the sentence.

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abdul rahman Nov 25, 2022 06:05pm
good.
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NYS Nov 25, 2022 06:17pm
Deportation will be conducted after sentence completion Means no room for compensation
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad Nov 25, 2022 06:58pm
As you sow, so shall you reap.
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Malik Nov 25, 2022 07:30pm
Justice prevailing in develop country.
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Sunil Nov 25, 2022 07:30pm
Sounds Chinese how is he Canadian.
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Truth be told Nov 25, 2022 08:53pm
Not sure why China wants to deport him since he is a born Chinese national. With several counts of rape I was expecting China might hang him but their rules and their country. After his sentencing, China wants to throw the junky into Canada so he can ruin lives there? He was not a born Canadian and had acquired citizenship there like everyone else. Canada should strip him off his Canadian Citizenship so that he rots in jails in China and then stays there forever.
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Asif Nov 25, 2022 09:25pm
Should have stayed in Canada.
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nk Nov 25, 2022 10:05pm
Sound and clear whoever you are, whatever you are, punishment in China over all kind of crimes is a must
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nk Nov 25, 2022 10:06pm
@Sunil It is the same as it sounds Indian but can be an American.
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Javaid Nov 25, 2022 11:11pm
Canadian passport of convening
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M. Emad Nov 26, 2022 12:26am
Kris Wu ethnic Chinese.
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Tamza Nov 26, 2022 02:22am
@Sunil same as MANY ‘Pakistanis’ are ‘Canadian’. Just get a visa - there is also the ‘investment’ visa - Canada $250k ‘investment’ and you get ‘landed status’. In US $250k-$500k get you green card.
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Sam Nov 26, 2022 03:39am
Sadly, even Asians in the former inciters of colonist drug opium war countries, will not be spared from the horrors that the people of the western nations did to China. Drugs and rapes get justice fast and thus you can see rising China. US busy in wars while China busy in rising back to their #1 spot, US will hit China with sanctions now NOT
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Syed Nadeem Nov 26, 2022 04:07am
This is so common, young girls are plied with alcohol and then raped, I have see this so many times in Pakistan and the UK.
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Henchi Nov 26, 2022 04:28am
@Sunil Aren't there Indian sounding names holding US and/or Canadian passports.
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Viq saad Nov 26, 2022 04:58am
Lust is of no use
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