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China official charged in sex scandal amid microblog uproar
BEIJING | Fri May 3, 2013 7:19am EDT
(Reuters) - China will charge a district Communist Party official with corruption, which carries a maximum penalty of death, after images of him having sex with his mistress were splashed across microblog websites last year, state media said on Friday.
Graphic video footage of Lei Zhengfu, a district party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing, and his mistress was widely circulated on the Internet, causing an uproar among microbloggers. Lei was later sacked.
Party officials are banned from having mistresses, and the video came to symbolize in many people's eyes the excesses and corruption of the ruling elite. The case shows the party's growing sensitivity to public anger against abuse of power and official impunity.
President Xi Jinping has called for a crackdown on corruption, warning, as have many before him, that the problem is so severe it could threaten the party's survival.
But no senior officials have been fired or prosecuted for graft since Xi came to power.
Ten other officials were sacked after appearing in similar videos, Xinhua said.
They include county- and district-level officials and the heads of state-owned firms in Chongqing, the power-base of now-disgraced former top leader Bo Xilai, who was dramatically sacked last year amid lurid allegations of corruption and murder.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Prosecutors file charges in Chongqing sex tape affair
Staff Reporter 2013-05-05 09:21
Lei Zhengfu. (Internet photo)
Prosecutors are filling charges against Lei Zhengfu, former party secretary of Chongqing's Beibei district and another official for their involvement in a sex video scandal. The six men and women who staged and filmed the acts have also been charged.
The scandal came to light in November last year when a sex video of Lei and a young woman was uploaded on the internet, which promptly led to his removal as one of the first victims of the government's new campaign against corruption. Further investigations found that ten officials in the municipality had secretly been filmed having sex with three women at various hotels in honeytraps set up by local businessmen Xiao Ye and Yan Peng who later blackmailed the officials in exchange for lucrative engineering contracts.
Lei and another official were blackmailed for 5 million yuan (US$812,000) in total by the group of six, of whom Xiao has been identified as the mastermind behind the scheme. They have gone on trial at the No. 1 Branch of Chongqing People's Procuratorate. Police have already completed their investigation into Lei and prosecutors are filing charges against him.
Zhao Hongxia, the main woman named as the person who took part in and filmed the sex acts, has been bombarded with internet users' relentless searches for her personal information, including pictures of her husband and child. Zhao's lawyer said her family did not want to be interviewed and she hopes the lawsuit can be settled as soon as possible.
