Luckin Coffee Scandal Timeline
The scandal intensified scrutiny over companies based in China and other foreign countries that go public in the US.
Luckin coffee scandal timeline. China-based coffee chain Luckin Coffee which has been slowly recovering its business months after it was delisted from Nasdaq following an accountancy scandal filed for bankruptcy. Chinas Luckin Coffee slumps on fake data news. The company filed under Chapter 15 protection which shields the Chinese coffee chain from legal action in the US.
Lu who is also chairman of the companys board insisted he didnt play tricks in order to cheat investors. Chinas market competition regulator announced a fine of 61 million yuan US. Some proponents even came to Luckins defense arguing that a Chinese company scamming American investors for the benefit of Chinese consumers was actually a noble idea.
Published 28 April 2020. The scandal marks a stunning fall for the Xiamen-based company that had been touted as the countrys largest coffee chain by store count. One of Chinas most powerful regulators has raided the offices of Luckin Coffee after opening an investigation into the scandal-hit firm.
In December Luckin Coffee agreed to pay 180 million to the SEC to settle its fraud allegations. 9 million against Luckin Coffee and a group of affiliated firms in response to the coffee chains inflated sales scandal. Although its stores are expected.
Published 3 April 2020. As of January 2020 it managed 4507 stores and exceeded the number of Starbucks stores in China. Even as its own prospects were fading the companys name would suffer more damage when it got tangled up in the scandal involving Luckin an upstart Chinese coffee chain that shocked the world nearly a year ago when it confessed to inflating its revenue by 310 million in 2019.
IPO and now an investigation for alleged fraud. Scandal-hit Luckin Coffee raided by regulators. Most of its stores are small pick-up locations in office buildings or college campuses that serve for online orders pickup and delivery.