BEIJING – A Beijing courtroom sentenced Canadian singer Kris Wu on Friday to 13 years in jail after discovering him responsible of crimes together with rape, simply over a 12 months after his arrest in China, the place he was born and constructed a profitable profession.
The courtroom within the district of Chaoyang mentioned the investigation confirmed that from November to December 2020, the 32-year-old, who's also called Wu Yifan, had raped three girls.
“Wu Yifan took benefit of three drunken girls … at his dwelling,” the courtroom mentioned on its official WeChat account.
A former member of Okay-pop group EXO, the famous person returned to China in 2014 to pursue a solo profession.
Wu was detained on July 31 final 12 months after an 18-year-old Chinese language pupil publicly accused him of inducing her and different women, a few of them youthful than 18, to have intercourse with him.
On the time, the coed instructed the media Wu lured her into having intercourse when she was 17, after having plied her with liquor.
The courtroom additionally discovered him responsible of the crime of assembling a crowd to have interaction in sexual promiscuity in July 2018, it mentioned.
The Canadian embassy in Beijing didn't instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark, although state media mentioned its officers had attended the sentencing.
He was additionally ordered to pay $83.77 million for hiding private earnings and different tax-related offenses, the tax bureau mentioned.’
Wu evaded $13 million of tax from 2019 to 2020 by hiding private earnings by means of home and overseas affiliated enterprises, and underpaid taxes of 84 million yuan, authorities mentioned.
On the time of his detention, Wu was an envoy for 15 manufacturers, akin to Bulgari, Lancome, Louis Vuitton, and Porsche, all of which instantly severed ties with him.
The courtroom mentioned Wu could be deported, though attorneys in China have mentioned such deportations usually happen after the completion of the sentence.
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