Complete probe promised over sex video case
By Li Qian |
February 1, 2013, Friday
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DISCIPLINARY authorities in Chongqing vowed yesterday to thoroughly investigate officials who are believed to have been involved in a recent sex video scandal.
"The investigation results will withstand the challenges of history and society," an official from the city's Party Discipline Inspection Commission said, according to Xinhua news agency.
Eleven senior officials in local government departments or state-owned enterprises have been sacked for allegedly appearing in sex videos.
The official made the statement after Zhu Ruifeng, an independent investigative journalist who brought the scandal to light in November, claimed earlier this week that he had obtained footage of even more officials.
The first implicated in the case, Lei Zhengfu, Party chief of Chongqing's Beibei District, will soon be transferred for prosecution on corruption charges, officials said yesterday.
Young women who lured the men into secretly videotaped sex did the bidding of developers intent on using blackmail to get construction contracts.
One of the women, Zhao Hongxia, who has been arrested, said she had been so naive as to be "brainwashed'' by the ringleader of the extortion gang, Xiao Ye, Qilu Evening News reported her lawyer as saying yesterday.
The comments came as an online debate raged over the culpability of Zhao.
Xiao lured Zhao to become his girlfriend in 2007 and tricked her into having sex with senior officials and videotaping it in order to sell clothes to the officials, Zhao's lawyer, Zhang Zhiyong, told the paper. Zhang said Zhao firmly believed the ruse.
Zhang said online comments against Zhao, such as ironically dubbing her an anti-corruption hero, had really hurt her, her husband and her one-year-old son, the paper reported.
Several other lawyers also defended her on the Internet, saying she was a victim of Xiao's love trap.
Zhang said he has unsuccessfully tried to get Zhao, released on bail, the paper said.
Xiao and some of the major suspects in the case have been arrested while several others are in bail or on house arrest, the disciplinary watchdog said yesterday.
The whistleblower, Zhu, said on Tuesday that he had obtained most of the footage from a source at the municipal public security bureau, but has refused to give it to police in order to protect his source.
"The investigation results will withstand the challenges of history and society," an official from the city's Party Discipline Inspection Commission said, according to Xinhua news agency.
Eleven senior officials in local government departments or state-owned enterprises have been sacked for allegedly appearing in sex videos.
The official made the statement after Zhu Ruifeng, an independent investigative journalist who brought the scandal to light in November, claimed earlier this week that he had obtained footage of even more officials.
The first implicated in the case, Lei Zhengfu, Party chief of Chongqing's Beibei District, will soon be transferred for prosecution on corruption charges, officials said yesterday.
Young women who lured the men into secretly videotaped sex did the bidding of developers intent on using blackmail to get construction contracts.
One of the women, Zhao Hongxia, who has been arrested, said she had been so naive as to be "brainwashed'' by the ringleader of the extortion gang, Xiao Ye, Qilu Evening News reported her lawyer as saying yesterday.
The comments came as an online debate raged over the culpability of Zhao.
Xiao lured Zhao to become his girlfriend in 2007 and tricked her into having sex with senior officials and videotaping it in order to sell clothes to the officials, Zhao's lawyer, Zhang Zhiyong, told the paper. Zhang said Zhao firmly believed the ruse.
Zhang said online comments against Zhao, such as ironically dubbing her an anti-corruption hero, had really hurt her, her husband and her one-year-old son, the paper reported.
Several other lawyers also defended her on the Internet, saying she was a victim of Xiao's love trap.
Zhang said he has unsuccessfully tried to get Zhao, released on bail, the paper said.
Xiao and some of the major suspects in the case have been arrested while several others are in bail or on house arrest, the disciplinary watchdog said yesterday.
The whistleblower, Zhu, said on Tuesday that he had obtained most of the footage from a source at the municipal public security bureau, but has refused to give it to police in order to protect his source.
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