JD.com CEO to skip Shanghai tech forum after rape allegation

JD.com CEO to skip Shanghai tech forum after rape allegation

JD.com founder Richard Liu attends a business forum in Hong Kong, China June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

JD.com CEO Richard Liu will no longer attend a high-profile state-run tech forum in Shanghai this week – an absence that comes after he was arrested on suspicion of rape in the United States last month.

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