The prosecutor’s office of the Beijing district of Chaoyang said in a one-sentence statement that Kris Wu’s arrest was formally approved but gave no details of the charges.
Kris Wu earlier denied the accusation by a teenager that he had sexually assaulted her while she was drunk. The accusation prompted an outpouring of sympathetic comments online for the teenager and criticism of Kris Wu.
The teenager said seven women had contacted her to say Kris Wu had seduced them with promises of jobs and other opportunities. She said some were under 18 but gave no indication whether any were younger than China’s age of consent of 14.
Kris Wu, the singer, who is a Canadian national, rose to fame as part of the hit K-pop boy band EXO was detained on 1 August while police conducted an investigation in response to comments online that he had “repeatedly lured young women” to have sex, according to a police statement at that time.
Since Du Meizhu’s allegations spread on Chinese social media, Wu lost his deals with major brands, including Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, L’Oreal Men and Porsche.
