A former head of OKX Investment and founding companion of Ant Financial’s A&T Capital, Jun Yu, is reportedly dealing with severe allegations of sexual harassment from a number of ladies, together with his workers at A&T Capital.
The allegations have been made public by means of social media, with one Twitter person, sukie.eth, saying Yu sexually harassed her.
Crypto reporter Colin Wu amplified the lady’s allegations in a tweet, the place he implied that Yu was a recurring offender, with a couple of girl making the identical accusations in opposition to him.
Woman quits job after alleged harassment
Tweeting in Chinese, sukie.eth claimed Yu made inappropriate advances towards her in June 2022 whereas working as an intern at A&T’s Shanghai workplace.
In the prolonged Twitter submit, she repulsed Yu’s advances however was compelled to stop her job.
According to her, since her claims in opposition to Yu would have been weak as a result of a scarcity of stable proof, she selected her profession and that of her colleagues over the pursuit of justice.
The Twitter person additionally claimed Yu tried to provide her 20,000 yuan to lease a home, which she refused. The solely cash she ever requested for was three months’ wage as compensation for work accomplished at A&T Capital.
Sukie.eth says she solely got here ahead following studies that Yu had allegedly sexually assaulted one other A&T worker and acquired away with it.
A&T and OKX mum over allegations
Colin Wu tweeted that Jun Yu had initially made a social media submit denying the sexual harassment allegations and calling them rumors however then deleted it afterward.
So far, neither A&T Capital nor OKX has responded to the claims. However, in line with Wu, OKX has distanced itself from Yu, saying he solely labored with the corporate between March 2018 and June 2019. It had acquired no antagonistic studies in opposition to him throughout that interval.
OKX’s connection to Yu, nevertheless tenuous, acquired extra unhealthy publicity after the change introduced it will depart the Canadian market following new regulatory necessities by the Canadian Securities Administrator (CSA).
