Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu sacked over sex film
Reports of official's decadence leads to downfall as counterpart also loses job amid bribe claims
A Chongqing district party chief caught on video having sex with a young mistress was sacked yesterday, becoming the latest party official to succumb to his own decadent lifestyle.
On the same day that the sex scandal cost Lei Zhengfu , 54, his post as Beibei district party secretary, one of his counterparts in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, was reportedly fired amid bribery allegations, underscoring the breadth of the country's corruption problem.
The action by the Chongqing Comnunist Party came just three days after a five-year-old video surfaced online appearing to show Lei having sex with his then-18-year-old mistress.
Authorities said the party's discipline inspection authority had confirmed Lei was indeed "the man in an indelicate video, which was widely circulated on the internet in recent days".
The statement faulted Lei for keeping mistresses, a common practice among fallen mainland officials that is nonetheless prohibited by party rules.
Lei's troubles began on Tuesday when two citizen journalists, Ji Xuguang and Zhu Ruifeng , posted shots from the video. They showed the district chief in bed with a woman who was known to frequently accompany him and refer to him as "godfather", Xinhua said.
They also alleged Lei had helped his brother win government contracts.
