Chinese internet giant Alibaba fired the worker who was accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague and will not recruit him again, according to its internal post issued by CEO Zhang Yong on Sunday.
The post revealed the male employee was involved in a drunken state of excessive intimacy with the female colleague, which seriously violated the company's regulations. Police are investigating whether the male employee committed rape or indecent assault.

As per the post, Li Yonghe, president of Alibaba's Citywide Retail Business Group, and Human Resources Generalist Xu Kun have taken the blame and resigned. Alibaba's Chief People Officer Judy Tong Wenhong received a demerit.
Zhang said, the incident caused great harm to the female employee. Regardless of the result of the investigation, "We will do our best to care for her."

此前,阿里巴巴董事局主席兼CEO张勇在阿里内网发帖回应,用震惊、气愤、羞愧,表达对阿里一员工涉嫌侵犯女同事事件的感受。他同时表示,必须调查清楚,给全体阿里同学和全社会一个交代。
In another internal post, Zhang Yong said Sunday that he was "shocked, furious and ashamed" after learning about the case.
"The HR department should apologize for ignoring her, and the related department should also be held responsible for this misconduct," Zhang said, vowing to fully investigate the case and make the findings available to all Alibaba employees.

Police in Jinan, capital of Shandong province, where the incidents are alleged to have taken place, said on Sunday that an investigation and evidence collection had been conducted, and they expect to release results in a timely manner.
The investigation began after the female employee wrote a detailed internal post alleging that her male manager sexually assaulted her in a hotel room during a business trip to Jinan on July 27.
She said she complained to Alibaba's human resources department but was ignored. That prompted her to distribute letters about the alleged assault in the canteen of Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province.
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Jinan Hualian supermarket announced on Sunday that the Alibaba client accused of molestation has been suspended from work and that it will cooperate with the investigation.
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