Bounty offered for sex video suspect's photo
By Li Qian |
January 31, 2013, Thursday
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A WHISTLEBLOWER is offering a bounty for a clear photo that he says will help confirm the involvement of a senior official believed to be implicated in a sex video scandal in Chongqing, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.
Zhu Ruifeng has called on netizens to help and has promised to pay 1,000 yuan (US$160.80) for each photo used to confirm the identity of Sun Lida, an executive of the state-owned Chongqing City Construction and Investment Corp, the newpaper reported.
"Since Sun keeps a low profile, I am now searching his pictures by offering rewards on my microblog,'' Zhu said.
Zhu said he believes Sun is pictured on one of the seven sex videos that have led to the downfall of 11 high-level officials in Chongqing. Women in the videos lured the men at the bidding of developers, intending to use them for blackmail to secure construction contracts.
Zhu said this week that aside from the 11, there are another five officials implicated, though officials have not confirmed it. It wasn't clear yesterday if Sun was among the five.
Li Zhiguang, who was deputy manager of the same company where Sun works, was sacked from his post after he was confirmed to be one of the 11 officials who had relations with the women.
The scandal broke in November after a video with one official, later confirmed to be Lei Zhengfu, Party chief of Chongqing's Beibei District, went viral online.
Zhu told Beijing Times he got six videos from a source within Chongqing public security bureau, and one from Xu Sheqing, a member of the extortion ring who has been arrested.
Zhu said on Weibo that Chongqing police wanted to learn the identity of the police insider. He said Chongqing police visited his Beijing home last Sunday night and questioned him for seven hours on Monday.
Zhu said he told police he could offer evidence to confirm the 11 received the sexual bribes, but he refused to turn over the videos. He said police rebuffed his offer and threatened him with prosecution if he didn't cooperate.
Zhu said he thinks Chongqing officials would secretly dismiss additional officials involved in the case in an attempt to hush up the facts.
Zhu said police had destroyed earlier videos. In November 2009, Wang Lijun, Chongqing's former police chief sentenced last year to 15 years in jail, organized a special team to investigate the scandal. However, officials in the videos were not punished and some even received promotion, Zhu said.
Zhu Ruifeng has called on netizens to help and has promised to pay 1,000 yuan (US$160.80) for each photo used to confirm the identity of Sun Lida, an executive of the state-owned Chongqing City Construction and Investment Corp, the newpaper reported.
"Since Sun keeps a low profile, I am now searching his pictures by offering rewards on my microblog,'' Zhu said.
Zhu said he believes Sun is pictured on one of the seven sex videos that have led to the downfall of 11 high-level officials in Chongqing. Women in the videos lured the men at the bidding of developers, intending to use them for blackmail to secure construction contracts.
Zhu said this week that aside from the 11, there are another five officials implicated, though officials have not confirmed it. It wasn't clear yesterday if Sun was among the five.
Li Zhiguang, who was deputy manager of the same company where Sun works, was sacked from his post after he was confirmed to be one of the 11 officials who had relations with the women.
The scandal broke in November after a video with one official, later confirmed to be Lei Zhengfu, Party chief of Chongqing's Beibei District, went viral online.
Zhu told Beijing Times he got six videos from a source within Chongqing public security bureau, and one from Xu Sheqing, a member of the extortion ring who has been arrested.
Zhu said on Weibo that Chongqing police wanted to learn the identity of the police insider. He said Chongqing police visited his Beijing home last Sunday night and questioned him for seven hours on Monday.
Zhu said he told police he could offer evidence to confirm the 11 received the sexual bribes, but he refused to turn over the videos. He said police rebuffed his offer and threatened him with prosecution if he didn't cooperate.
Zhu said he thinks Chongqing officials would secretly dismiss additional officials involved in the case in an attempt to hush up the facts.
Zhu said police had destroyed earlier videos. In November 2009, Wang Lijun, Chongqing's former police chief sentenced last year to 15 years in jail, organized a special team to investigate the scandal. However, officials in the videos were not punished and some even received promotion, Zhu said.
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