Chinese-Canadian star Kris Wu given 13 years in Beijing prison on various charges | 24CA News
A Chinese court docket on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in jail on expenses together with rape.
Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court stated Wu was given 11 years and 6 months for a 2020 rape, and 1 yr and 10 months for the “crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity” in a 2018 occasion wherein he and others allegedly assaulted two ladies they’d gotten drunk.
The court docket stated the three victims within the rape case had additionally been drunk and had been unable to consent.
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It stated a mixed 13-year sentence was agreed on and Wu can be instantly deported after serving his time.
“According to the facts the nature, circumstances and harmful consequences of the crime, the court made the above judgment,” the court docket stated in a web-based assertion.
A Canadian diplomat was in court docket to listen to the sentencing, it stated.
Kris Wu arrives on the crimson carpet on the iHeartRadio MMVAs in Toronto on Aug. 26, 2018.
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Wu was additionally slapped with a high quality of 600 million yuan (US$83.7 million) for evading taxes by massively underreporting his earnings from performances, commercials and different sources of earnings.
The June trial of the 32-year-old former member of the South Korean group EXO was closed to the general public to guard the victims’ privateness.
Wu has been detained since August 2021 whereas police performed an investigation in response to feedback on-line that he “repeatedly lured young women” to have intercourse, in accordance with a police assertion at the moment.
That yr, a youngster accused him of getting intercourse along with her whereas she was drunk. Wu, recognized in Chinese as Wu Yifan, denied the accusation.
The teenager then stated seven different ladies contacted her to say Wu seduced them with guarantees of jobs and different alternatives. She stated some had been beneath 18.
Rape is punishable by three to 10 years in jail, though distinctive instances can lead to harsher sentences as much as loss of life. The second cost Wu confronted is punishable by as much as 5 years in jail.
Wu grew up in Guangzhou in China and in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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