Convict blackmailed for sex, ran cash con from prison cell
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A PRISONER in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province ran a con scheme from his cell, duping women out of cash and blackmailing a policeman’s wife to visit him for sex, it emerged yesterday.
Three prison officers at the jail at Nehe City have been sacked over the affair and three punished, the Oriental Morning Post reported.
Sources said that prison officers broke rules and gave inmate Wang Dong, who is serving a sentence for kidnapping, a smartphone.
Wang used the Wechat messaging phone app to befriend seven women living nearby last year, the paper reported.
He is said to have claimed to the women that he was involved in business deals that promised high returns.
At least three of the women were taken in, including one working in the prison, who gave Wang 80,000 yuan (US$12,880) to invest. Guards acted as go-betweens to get the cash to Wang, the paper reported.
Wang is claimed to have used the cash to “recruit” prisoners, bribe guards and to gamble.
It is also said that Wang engaged in “virtual sex” with the wife of a police officer.
She sent Wang naked pictures of herself, which the prisoner is alleged to have used to blackmail her to visit him for sex sessions.
In parts of China, prisoners with good behavior records are granted conjugal visits from their wives.
She visited Wang several times, claiming to be his wife, before guards intervened, the newspaper reported.
Wang later sent the naked photographs of the woman to her family and began threatening her husband. The husband alerted the authorities last November.
The guards and Wang are being investigated.
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