Friday, June 27, 2008

CORRUPT CHINESE OFFICIALS REVEALING CRIMES TO MISTRESSES

Roose rips sink shrips:

Loose-tongued Chinese officials are inadvertently ending their careers by admitting corruption during pillow talk with their mistresses, according to investigators.

Private conversations between lovers revealing details of illicit dealings and exposing high-level fraud are being retold by women to the anti-corruption bureau in Dongguan, a major industrial city in the south.

"At least 80% of corrupt officials exposed in Dongguan had mistresses who gave us important information that we did not possess," the bureau's deputy director, Zhou Yuefeng, told the China Daily newspaper.

Beijing has repeatedly pledged to fight corruption, one of the major causes of public resentment and potential unrest. Earlier this week, it said the situation was "grim" and the task "arduous" as it announced a five-year plan to tackle the problem.

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