Ten Chinese Officials Fired in Sex Tape Scandal - The Epoch Times

A composite image of some of the officials that were caught up in the latest scandal involved prostitutes and video tapes in Chongqing. (Canyu.org)

Ten Chinese officials were fired from their posts in connection with a sex tape extortion scandal in the southwestern city of Chongqing, while police broke up a criminal ring that was behind the incidents, according to state-run media.

The ten officials allegedly appeared in the one or more of the videos, which were used by the ring to blackmail them into handing out profitable building contracts. 

One official in Chongqing, Lei Zhengfu, a portly man whose face appeared in screenshots that have appeared across the Internet, lost his job following the emergence of the scandal last November. 

The Communist Party mouthpiece Xinhua reported that the county- and district-level officials were sacked, adding that "executives of state-owned enterprises" were also fired.

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