Client who molested Alibaba worker jailed for 18 months in China

Jinan court found Zhang Guo committed coerced molestation after he ‘violated the will of the victim and molested her when she was drunk’. The woman, who has since been fired, also accused her former supervisor of rape but police last year said his actions did not constitute a crime. — SCMP

A court in eastern China sentenced a client of ecommerce giant Alibaba Group to 18 months in prison for molesting a former female Alibaba employee.

The man, Zhang Guo, met the former employee, Zhou, in July 2021 at a dinner. While Zhou was inebriated, Zhang molested her at the restaurant and again in her hotel room the next morning, the Huaiyin District People’s Court in Jinan in eastern Shandong province on Wednesday.