Chinese convict blackmailed women he filmed naked during phone chats - including prison officer's wife
PUBLISHED : Friday, 23 January, 2015, 11:24am
UPDATED : Friday, 23 January, 2015, 12:15pm
Zhuang Pinghui [email protected]
Chinese prisoner Wang Dong - jailed for six years for kidnapping - blackmailed 110,000 yuan from three women after filming them naked as they chatted online. Photo: thepaper.cn
A Chinese prisoner used an app on his mobile phone to film three naked women – including the wife of a prison officer – who chatted with him, and then blackmail 110,000 yuan (about HK$140,000) from two of them, prison authorities said yesterday.
The man – named by news portal thepaper.cn as Wang Dong, 28 – contacted women near the prison on WeChat using a smartphone given to him by a prison guard, the newspaper, New Culture News, reported on Wednesday .
The provincial prison authorities issued a statement after the scandal – first reported by New Culture News, on Wednesday – attracted widespread online attention.
New Culture News alleged the man, jailed for six years in Nehe prison, Heilongjiang province, in 2012, after being convicted of kidnapping – had relationships with seven women, including a wife of a police officer and a woman who worked in the prison.
One of the women had paid him 80,000 yuan, it said.
The newspaper report claimed the wife of the prison officer had been blackmailed into visiting him in prison and having sex with him.
The scandal was exposed after the officer reported the matter to the prison authorities.
Only three women had fallen victim to the prisoner and visited him in jail, said a report published yesterday following an investigation carried out by the Qinnen People’s Procuratorate and Nehe Prison – at the request of the Heilongjiang provincial authorities.
The prison authorities' report, published by China Youth Daily today, also confirmed that some prison guards had collaborated with Wang.
These women had been forced to do what the prisoner wanted after he had filmed them naked while chatting with him, the report said.
However, the investigation ruled out the possibility of the women having sex with the prisoner because they had met him only in a meeting room and dining room, during the day, while monitoring devices were in use and prison officers were present. This is the third scandal in recent months involving prisons in Heilongjiang.
In September three men jailed in Yanshou county escaped after killing a prison officer. Earlier this month a man in custody in Bayan county escaped when receiving medical care.
