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A Chinese official who acted as if a day without sex was a day wasted has been detained for taking bribes to finance his ambition to sleep with 800 women.
The middle-ranking official from a commercial department in Anqing city in central China is the latest in a series of Communist Party mandarins to face disgrace and possible jail because of their sexual adventures.
The misdemeanours of Wang Cheng, a pseudonym, came to light in March after his wife happened upon diaries in which he recounted in minute detail his search for sex, his female conquests and the bribes he had taken.
Mr Wang, 47, had risen quickly through the bureaucracy from a position in a rural county to a more powerful job in the city. The local Xinan Evening News said he was regarded as enjoying an ideal life with a successful career, a child at university and a wife who was working in a similar department.
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His downfall came when he began to stay late at the office. Then he told his wife that he had to go out in the evening for social engagements. Her suspicions were finally aroused when he began to spend the whole night away from home.
On a visit to her parents-in-law last month, she came across an IOU slip for 660,000 yuan (£66,000) written out to her husband from a woman she did not know along with a series of her husband’s diaries and computer diaries.
Reading the diaries, she found detailed accounts by her husband of his sexual escapades. He had also made video recordings of his trysts. Distraught, the wife finally confided in a friend who reported Mr Wang to discipline inspection authorities.
On March 21, Mr Wang was detained at his office and taken for questioning. Faced with so much evidence, written in his own hand, he quickly confessed, the newspaper said.
He told investigators how local businessmen gave him money in return for his using the power bestowed by his official position to help them. He admitted to buying numerous properties with the bribes.
His diaries showed that since 2003 he had mapped targets for obtaining money to supplement his income to pay for his conquests. In 2003, he wrote, his monthly salary was 1,600 yuan and he planned to supplement this with 8,000 yuan a month in extra-curricular funds with a goal of amassing 100,000 yuan a year.
"He was busy eight hours a day seeking bribes, and eight hours a day as a hooligan seeking sex," the report quoted prosecutors as saying. "If it was not for the power that he held in his hand, he would never have been able to scam the money."
On the first page of his diary he wrote: “In 2003, I want to have sex with at least 56 women and keep two mistresses from respectable families.”
He more than fulfilled his goals. His three diaries showed he had sex with around 500 women – although that still fell short of his aim of “between 600 and 800 women”. He noted down each encounter in detail and the amount he paid each woman.
“The dissipation of Wang Cheng’s lifestyle is rarely seen,” one prosecutor said.
China has introduced several sets of regulations since 1988 to deter officials from taking a mistress, but these have failed to curb abuses by government servants.
Just last month, an official was sacked and arrested after his diary detailing sexual hi-jinks and bribery was splashed across the Internet. Han Feng's diary contained graphic accounts of sexual trysts with several young women, including government employees, and recounted regular liquor-soaked banquets with other officials and businessmen.
A Chinese official who acted as if a day without sex was a day wasted has been detained for taking bribes to finance his ambition to sleep with 800 women.
The middle-ranking official from a commercial department in Anqing city in central China is the latest in a series of Communist Party mandarins to face disgrace and possible jail because of their sexual adventures.
The misdemeanours of Wang Cheng, a pseudonym, came to light in March after his wife happened upon diaries in which he recounted in minute detail his search for sex, his female conquests and the bribes he had taken.
Mr Wang, 47, had risen quickly through the bureaucracy from a position in a rural county to a more powerful job in the city. The local Xinan Evening News said he was regarded as enjoying an ideal life with a successful career, a child at university and a wife who was working in a similar department.
Related Links
His downfall came when he began to stay late at the office. Then he told his wife that he had to go out in the evening for social engagements. Her suspicions were finally aroused when he began to spend the whole night away from home.
On a visit to her parents-in-law last month, she came across an IOU slip for 660,000 yuan (£66,000) written out to her husband from a woman she did not know along with a series of her husband’s diaries and computer diaries.
Reading the diaries, she found detailed accounts by her husband of his sexual escapades. He had also made video recordings of his trysts. Distraught, the wife finally confided in a friend who reported Mr Wang to discipline inspection authorities.
On March 21, Mr Wang was detained at his office and taken for questioning. Faced with so much evidence, written in his own hand, he quickly confessed, the newspaper said.
He told investigators how local businessmen gave him money in return for his using the power bestowed by his official position to help them. He admitted to buying numerous properties with the bribes.
His diaries showed that since 2003 he had mapped targets for obtaining money to supplement his income to pay for his conquests. In 2003, he wrote, his monthly salary was 1,600 yuan and he planned to supplement this with 8,000 yuan a month in extra-curricular funds with a goal of amassing 100,000 yuan a year.
"He was busy eight hours a day seeking bribes, and eight hours a day as a hooligan seeking sex," the report quoted prosecutors as saying. "If it was not for the power that he held in his hand, he would never have been able to scam the money."
On the first page of his diary he wrote: “In 2003, I want to have sex with at least 56 women and keep two mistresses from respectable families.”
He more than fulfilled his goals. His three diaries showed he had sex with around 500 women – although that still fell short of his aim of “between 600 and 800 women”. He noted down each encounter in detail and the amount he paid each woman.
“The dissipation of Wang Cheng’s lifestyle is rarely seen,” one prosecutor said.
China has introduced several sets of regulations since 1988 to deter officials from taking a mistress, but these have failed to curb abuses by government servants.
Just last month, an official was sacked and arrested after his diary detailing sexual hi-jinks and bribery was splashed across the Internet. Han Feng's diary contained graphic accounts of sexual trysts with several young women, including government employees, and recounted regular liquor-soaked banquets with other officials and businessmen.
