China is facing an avalanche of sex scandals as an ‘investigative reporter’, whose videos of an official in compromising positions with his mistress created embarrassment for the government, plans to release more such clips.
The threat came even as an “anchor” of a TV station charged a Communist Party politician of coercing her into a long-term relationship.
Zhu Ruifeng, a “reporter with counter-corruption website” jdwsy.com, told the state-run Global Times that five more sex videos featuring officials of Chongqing, till early this year ruled by disgraced party leader Bo Xilai, will be released after getting enough proof of their authenticity.
Zhu posted the 12-secondlong video to the Internet last week showing Lei Zhengfu, then secretary of the Beibei district committee of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing, in a compromising position with an 18year-old Zhao Hongxia.
Zhu claims Zhao has been Lei’s mistress for the last five years.
Lei, 54, who has been sacked and faced disciplinary probe by the Party, had been receiving bribes and sexual favours provided by local businessmen, Zhu said.
The video, filmed by Zhao with a hidden camera, was later used to threaten Lei by the construction company but Lei managed to get local police, led by then police chief Wang Lijun, to detain Zhao for a month and send the company manager to prison for one year, Zhu said.
Wang, who fled to the US consulate fearing reprisals from Bo over investigations into his wife Gu Kailai’s involvement in the murder of UK businessman Neil Heywood, has been jailed for 15 years.
Xinhua said on Monday that officials pledged a thorough investigation into the sex tape scandal.
In another sex scandal that rocked the administration, Wang Dechun, 42, who identified herself as a former anchor of CityTV of Shuangcheng in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, has accused a deputy to the local People’s Congress of coercing her into a sexual relationship more than a decade ago, the Beijing News reported on Sunday.
Wang said on her microblog Sina Weibo that congress deputy Sun Dejiang, who is also general manager of a local industrial company, used his power to coerce her into a relationship that began before 1999.
Wang said in her Weibo account that she became indebted to Sun after he arranged to provide her retired mother with a pension and social security benefits by putting her on the list of factory retirees, even though she never worked there. Wang said Sun threatened to cut her mother’s pension unless she continued to provide sexual favours.
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