Founder Richard Liu sells JD.com stake worth about $932m in past month

Founder Richard Liu sells JD.com stake worth about $932m in past month

Richard Liu. Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg

Richard Liu, founder and chairman of JD.com Inc., has been selling down his holdings in the Chinese e-commerce giant over the last month, cashing out about $932 million, exchange filings show.

The share sales are just the latest step Liu has taken over the last few years to distance himself from the company he founded. The moves coincide with a pending civil lawsuit in the United States against him and the company he founded that center on four-year-old rape accusations.

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