JD.com's billionaire CEO was held for rape after night of wining and dining

The arrest of Chinese billionaire Liu Qiangdong last week in the U.S. on suspicion of rape followed a group dinner attended by Mr. Liu and the woman who alleges the assault, according to a person familiar with the woman’s account.

Mr. Liu and the woman, a Chinese student attending the University of Minnesota, sat at the same table Thursday at Origami, a Japanese restaurant in Minneapolis, the person said.

Mr. Liu, the 45-year-old chief executive of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc., JD was arrested on suspicion of a rape that allegedly occurred at 1 a.m. Friday, according to Minneapolis police records. He