Misconduct of Chris Xu - Founder and CEO of Shein Group
Chris Xu, the Founder and CEO of Shein and architect of a global corporate machineis sanctioning and financing the criminal acts against me.
A Guardian article sheds light as to the nature of this CEO: Reports on Xu’s background and rise through the industry have painted a picture of a hardworking SEO whiz, with an alleged capacity for ruthless business decisions.
Xu is financing the criminal acts against me. Under his leadership, Shein has engaged in widespread commercial fraud, retaliation, and digital suppression designed to silence consumers and critics—including myself, a transgender Muslim woman lawfully asserting her rights.
After I suffered injuries believed to be caused by toxins in Shein products and was later physically assaulted while wearing them, I attempted to bring public attention and legal accountability to these harms. Rather than address these concerns, Xu oversaw a retaliatory scheme involving high-powered legal attacks, suppression of protected protest websites, and a coordinated misinformation campaign. This included the use of false court declarations, coercion of domain registrars, and the deployment of BHFS attorneys and unauthorized counsel to defame, intimidate, and cut off my access to justice.
Xu’s involvement is not distant or passive. As Shein’s top executive and strategic decision-maker, he is directly responsible for orchestrating this campaign—combining digital censorship with procedural weaponry to conceal wrongdoing, destroy evidence, and financially and emotionally exhaust a whistleblower.
Xu and Shein have violated § 17200 through:
• Shipping toxic and unregulated clothing and products to consumers
• Failing to maintain a legitimate, accessible California business address
• Misusing anti-SLAPP to delay redress and suppress evidence
• Participating in fraudulent website takedown schemes that lacked notice or basis
• Falsely represented that its products are safe, hypoallergenic, or compliant with U.S. regulations
• Misrepresented its delivery services, refund policy, and customer protection practices
• Concealed its actual physical location and operating structure from U.S. consumers
• Claimed fair access to dispute resolution while blocking reviews and suppressing dissent
Federal Violations
- 1 - 18 U.S.C. § 241 Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same.....They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
- 2 - 18 U.S.C. § 1512(2) Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant Whoever uses physical force or the threat of physical force against any person, or attempts to do so, with intent to (B) cause or induce any person to (ii) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the integrity or availability of the object for use in an official proceeding shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3).
- 3 - 18 U.S.C. § 1343 Fraud by wire, radio, or television Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
- 4 - 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) Prohibited activities It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section.
California Business and Professions Violations
- 1 - BPC § 17500 False or Misleading Advertising It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, or any employee thereof with intent directly or indirectly to dispose of real or personal property or to perform services, professional or otherwise, or anything of any nature whatsoever or to induce the public to enter into any obligation relating thereto, to make or disseminate or cause to be made or disseminated before the public in this state, or to make or disseminate or cause to be made or disseminated from this state before the public in any state, in any newspaper or other publication, or any advertising device, or by public outcry or proclamation, or in any other manner or means whatever, including over the Internet, any statement, concerning that real or personal property or those services, professional or otherwise, or concerning any circumstance or matter of fact connected with the proposed performance or disposition thereof, which is untrue or misleading, and which is known, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, or for any person, firm, or corporation to so make or disseminate or cause to be so made or disseminated any such statement as part of a plan or scheme with the intent not to sell that personal property or those services, professional or otherwise, so advertised at the price stated therein, or as so advertised. Any violation of the provisions of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
- 2 - BPC § 17200 Unlawful, Unfair, and Fraudulent Business Acts As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.
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