A former regional Communist Party official implicated in a s-éx scandal that has transfixed China was sentenced today to 13 years in jail for taking a lot more than 3.1 million yuan ($500,000) in bribes.
Lei Zhengfu, a portly, pop-eyed ex-secretary of an area in southwestern China's Chongqing, was caught on video having s-éx having an 18-year-old mistress, with the clip ricocheting around China's gossip-obsessed Internet when it surfaced last November.
The encounter turned out to become a sting operation by a house developer hoping to blackmail Lei, 55, into favorable commercial decisions, Chinese media reported.
When blackmailed with the s-éx video, Lei asked another property developer who had benefited from his patronagé to pay hush money of 3.1million yuan.
Lei was fired, then charged last month with corruption, which posesses maximum penalty of death.
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