Anhui couple sacked over sex orgy photos
Provincial authorities deny involvement of Anhui officials in the issue which has played out for a week
An official from Anhui's Hefei University and his wife, a schoolteacher, have been sacked after being linked to a sex photo scandal that has been unfolding on the internet for a week.
Quoting university authorities, Xinhua reported yesterday that Wang Yu, a deputy secretary of the university's Communist Youth League committee, had confessed to having the photos taken at an orgy in May 2007.
He denied internet speculation that the two other men in the photos were Lujiang county officials and said they were strangers.
Hefei University refused yesterday to identify the other men and two women who posed nude next to a hotel bed and did not say on what grounds Wang had been punished.
More than 180 sex photos featuring three nude men and two scantily clad women in a hotel room have been circulating over the internet since August 8. Internet users initially said that two of the men were Lujiang county officials, triggering widespread outrage online.