{"id":32182,"date":"2013-01-27T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=32182 "},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T16:47:00","slug":"32182-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=32182","title":{"rendered":"China sacks sex video extortion scandal officials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 Lei Zhengfu was the most high profile official caught up in the extortion scandal<\/div>
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Ten Chinese officials have been fired as part of a widening investigation into a sex tape extortion scandal in Chongqing, state media report.<\/div>
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Xinhua news agency said the men were all allegedly filmed by a “criminal ring” which then blackmailed them.<\/div>
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Police in the city had since broken up the ring, said the agency.<\/div>
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Senior Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu was fired last year after he featured in a sex video. He was said to have been entrapped by a construction firm.<\/div>
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The 10 sacked officials include party and government officials in the southwestern city as well as executives in state-owned companies, Xinhua reports, without naming any of them.<\/div>
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It said an investigation into the allegations of extortion had uncovered a “criminal ring” which had “hired women to seduce local officials, covertly filmed their sexual acts and used the videos as tools of extortion”.<\/div>
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The blackmailers are alleged to have been property developers seeking favourable construction contracts from influential city officials.<\/div>
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The investigation is part of a wide-ranging anti-corruption drive in Chongqing and across China, in response to rising public anger at official impropriety.<\/div>
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The former party leader of Chongqing, Bo Xilai, is currently awaiting trial on charges of corruption and abuse of power in one of the country’s biggest recent scandals.<\/div>
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Mr Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, has been jailed for the death of British businessman Neil Heywood. His former police chief, Wang Lijun, also received a jail term in connection with Mr Heywood’s murder.<\/div>
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Xi Jinping, the newly-installed head of China’s Communist Party, has said battling corruption in the party is a top priority.<\/div>
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