Next time when you hump a China doll, watch out.
Chances are there are 6 iPhones (bootlegged) shooting your amateur porn at the same time for a very good reason – money.
Chinese femmes fatale in 2.5m yuan blackmail scam filmed sex acts with local officials: court
Trial of gang, said to have snared 55 people over three years, similar to case of Lei Zhengfu, former Chongqing official jailed in 2013 for corruption after being embroiled in sex-video scandal.
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Lei Zhengfu (above), a former Chongqing official involved in a sensational sex tape scandal, went on trial in Chongqing in 2013.
This case is similar to the trial of Lei Zhengfu, a former Communist Party official from Chongqing, who was blackmailed after being caught up in a sex video scandal and jailed for 13 years for bribery in June 2013.
Lei Zhengfu faces corruption trial in Chongqing in 2013, which led to the downfall of more than 20 government and state enterprise officials in the city.
Five Chinese femmes fatale allegedly blackmailed up to 2.5 million yuan (HK$3 million) from dozens of local officials after secretly filming them having sex using a camera hidden in their handbags, mainland media reports.
Only one of the 55 victims – most of them local cadres – from 10 cities, including Hengyang and Chenzhou, in the four provinces of Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Hunan went to the police after being caught between 2010 and 2013, The Beijing News reported.
The women were allegedly part of a gang of 12 criminals, all from Hengyang, in Hunan, who appeared in court this month charged with blackmail at a closed-door hearing at Henyang’s People’s Court in Shigu district.
The report did not reveal the pleas of the defendants or the outcome of the trial.
The trial of Lei, a former Beibei district party chief who was purged from office after images from the video were posted online, led to the downfall of more than 20 government and state enterprise officials in the city.
This month’s trial was told that the gang was well-organised, with each member allegedly having a specific role to play, the newspaper report.
Some members were said to have been in charge of luring the officials, while the women slept with the victims while secret filming the process with cameras hidden in their handbags, the newspaper reported.
Others allegedly made copies of the recording on CDs and posted them to the officials.
Some of the victims paid the women for sleeping with them at the time, believing they were simply with prostitutes, the newspaper said.
However, they were later shocked to receive a CD showing them having sex with the women – plus demands for further payments.
The victims were all lured by the gang using the same simple ploy, The Beijing News reported.
The court was told the women would call or text the officials, asking them for a face-to-face meeting, then sleep with the victims in a hotel room while filming them having sex, and later blackmail them after sending them the CD showing them having sex.
The list of the victims is known only to the local party watchdog and the police.
About a dozen officials were known to have been sacked from their positions as a result of the sex tapes, the newspaper reported.
Zhao Hongxia, who was filmed in the sex tape with former Chinese official Lei Zhengfu, was given a suspended two-year jail sentence in 2013. Photo: screenshot via WeiboSix people involved in the plot to blackmail Lei and another official – including the mastermind of the scheme – received jail sentences ranging from 18 months to 10 years in 2013.
The woman seen with Lei in the sex tape, Zhao Hongxia, was given a suspended two-year jail term for extortion.
During Lei’s trial, the Chongqing court was told that the six people involved in the scam had obtained five million yuan from Lei and the other official by blackmailing them with secretly filmed sexual encounters.