Awarded contracts
When Lei was Party chief in the city's Dianjiang County between 2002 and 2006, he is alleged to have awarded construction contracts for projects such as renovating roads and building schools to his relatives and not to the businessman.
Because he was earning huge sums of money from this "family business," Zhu said, "Lei started to prefer attractive women to money."
People who wanted to bribe him hired young and attractive women aged 16 to 20 and sent them to him as mistresses, Zhu alleged.
The businessman who hired Zhao to take part in the sex video with Lei was said to have practiced the filming several times to ensure clear images of Lei could be captured.
But when Lei was told about the video he went to another senior Chongqing official for help.
Zhao and the businessman were then thrown into jail by a police team established by Wang Lijun, former vice mayor and police chief of Chongqing.
Wang received a 15-year sentence in September for covering up the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
In separate cases, Zhao was detained by police for 30 days while the businessman was jailed for one year for "making fake official seals," Zhu said.
The disciplinary watchdog in Chongqing said it was still investigating whether Lei was involved in the awarding of contracts to his relatives, the Oriental Morning Post reported yesterday.
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