Three Chinese officials sacked ‘over sex tape blackmail case’
Woman threatened officials in Fuzhou after they were secretly filmed having sex in hotel rooms, according to a newspaper report
Three officials in eastern China who were sacked in May were implicated in a sex-tape blackmail case that may involve up to 22 government staff, according to a newspaper report.
The authorities in Fuzhou in Fujian province said two months ago that the three had been dismissed and expelled from the Communist Party for their involvement in a blackmail case, but gave no further details at the time.
A police investigation uncovered that a businessman had invited government officials to his tea shop where they were propositioned by young women and some were secretly filmed having sex in hotel rooms, The Beijing News reported.
One woman demanded 200,000 yuan (HK$253,000) from each official to hand over the tapes or she would report them to the party’s disciplinary authority.
The sacked officials, Lin Lunjian, the chairman of Liangjiang county’s political advisory body; Chen Baifan, an official with Fuzhou’s market supervision management bureau, and Lin Zhong, the deputy mayor of Changle, were among the officials involved, the report said, without elaborating.
An unidentified source told the newspaper that as many as 22 officials could be involved in the case.