China charges six in sex video "extortion" case

(Reuters) - A court in the city of Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

The six were charged with extortion on Monday, Xinhua said, citing a statement from judicial authorities in Chongqing, where they are slated to be tried.

Investigators said the group "lured officials into having sex with women and secretly recorded their encounters to blackmail them from 2008 to 2009", Xinhua said.

The charges come after a high profile case in which footage of a district party chief having sex with his mistress went viral on the microblog service Sina Weibo, creating an uproar. State media said the official, Lei Zhengfu, has been removed from his post and will face corruption charges.

Party officials are banned from keeping mistresses and the video came to symbolize in many people's eyes the excesses and corruption of the ruling elite.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-china-corruption-idUSBRE94L05Y20130522

Not enough women in the country and party officials have mistresses....