Photo: CFP. Over 20 Fujian officials allegedly trapped in teahouse sex tape scandal. According to The Beijing News on July 1, a Fujian tea shop owner hired a young woman to seduce officials and then blackmail them using sex tapes and compromising pictures. The case was later made public by one of the officials who was caught in the honey trap but refused to pay up.
Honey trap On May 29, Fuzhou's CPC discipline inspection commission announced that several officials would face punishment for misbehavior, including Lin Lunjian, the chairman of Liangjiang county's political advisory body; Chen Baifan, an official with Fuzhou's market supervision management bureau; and Lin Zhong, a deputy mayor of Changle, a city administered by Fuzhou.
An anonymous official from the city government told The Beijing News that the three officials were all involved in the sex tape scandal but did not know about each other before the case was revealed. Moreover, they had no idea that the young seductress had been sleeping with other people, the official said. According to various sources close to the case, gossip about the sex tape scandal has spread among local officials since February. The Beijing News reported that the woman who did the dirty work is in her 20s and performed tea ceremonies with the officials in a teahouse owned by a businessman from a southern part of the province.
The businessman asked officials to visit the teahouse, where the woman gave her performance and began to develop a close relationship with the visitors. When the officials, who are mostly in their 50s, began to trust the woman, she seduced them.
The woman also threatened to tell the local disciplinary watchdog about their indiscretions if the officials refused to pay up, The Beijing News reported. The scandal is reminiscent of the case of Lei Zhengfu, former Party chief of the Beibei district of Chongqing.
