The girl, Zhao Hongxia, had allegedly been hired by an unnamed building developer to sleep with the city official before blackmailing him to obtain favourable construction contracts.
As the video emerged Lei Zhengfu was fired but Zhu said he was in possession of at least another five videos showing a number of officials in compromising situations.
Now authorities claim ten of those who featured in the videos have been fired from their positions within the Communist Party, local government and state-owned enterprises.
"The incident in Chongqing is not accidental or exceptional. It should be said that it is rather common and that the problem is with corrupted lifestyles," said Liu Shanying, a politics researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
"The atmosphere of officialdom is far from the traditional morality of ordinary people. Many local officials have lower moral standards than ordinary people, and the power they enjoy makes it easier for them to do immoral things," Liu said.
China's new president Xi Jinping has pledged to fight widespread corruption, as an increasing number of cases emerging online have triggered antipathy towards the party.
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