A man has confessed to defrauding Chinese Canadian pop singer Kris Wu over a teenager's accusation he sexually assaulted her when she was drunk, Beijing police said Thursday. The former member of Korean boy band EXO has denied the accusation, prompting an outpouring of support for the woman and criticism of Wu online. The man talked Wu's mother into sending the woman 500,000 yuan (about $97,300 Cdn). Then, pretending to be Wu's lawyer, the man tried to persuade the woman to send the money to him, the police statement said. Wu, known in Chinese as Wu Yifan, grew up in Guangzhou in southern China and in Vancouver.

Source: CBC News July 22, 2021 19:30 UTC