Beijing's Chaoyang District Court docket sentenced the previous member of Korean boy band EXO on expenses of rape and the "crime of assembling a crowd to interact in sexual promiscuity."
A Chinese language court docket on Friday sentenced Chinese language-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in jail on expenses together with rape.
Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court docket stated Wu was given 11 years and 6 months for a 2020 rape, and 1 12 months and 10 months for the “crime of assembling a crowd to interact in sexual promiscuity” in a 2018 occasion through which he and others allegedly assaulted two girls that they had gotten drunk.
The court docket stated the three victims within the rape case had additionally been drunk and had been unable to consent.
It stated a mixed 13-year sentence was agreed on and Wu can be instantly deported after serving his time.
“In response to the info … the character, circumstances and dangerous penalties of the crime, the court docket 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.
Wu was additionally slapped with a high quality of 600 million yuan ($83.7 million) for evading taxes by massively underreporting his earnings from performances, ads and different sources of revenue.
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 younger girls” to have intercourse, based on a police assertion at the moment.
That 12 months, a teen accused him of getting intercourse along with her whereas she was drunk. Wu, identified in Chinese language as Wu Yifan, denied the accusation.
The teenager then stated seven different girls 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 demise. 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.