Chinese sex tape scandal unearths corruption in Bo Xilai's Chongqing Unknown to the officials, the girls secretly shot them in action, providing ample material for future blackmail, if necessary. Zhao Hongxia, now a 23-year-old nurse, wrote on a blog that she had slept with Mr Lei to earn money to pay off her father's medical bills. She explained that the head of a property company had approached her in 2007, given her 50,000 yuan (£5,000) and offered her the chance to earn more. "He was straightforward, asking me if I wanted to be a prostitute serving some government officials that he had a business relationship with," she wrote. In the next two weeks they found several girls to teach me what to do and the night before I went to meet Lei, he [the businessman] slept with me himself as a rehearsal. I found it quite disgusting. Ms Zhao received 300 yuan for each night she spent with the official. As far back as 2009, Mr Lei confessed his situation to Bo Xilai, the former head of Chongqing. Bo told Wang Lijun [his police chief] to help. Wang set up an investigating team, found the girls in the tape and her boss. She was detained for 30 days and the property developer was jailed for forging company seals," said Mr Zhu. He said the video, together with the tapes of at least five other city officials, were suppressed by Mr Bo and Mr Wang during their tenure. But after Mr Bo was disgraced this year, the tapes found their way into Mr Zhu's hands. "I chose to post the video on the same day that the new party chief of Chongqing, Sun Zhengcai, made a speech about fighting corruption," said Mr Zhu. He added that he was still evaluating how to release the other tapes. Ms Zhao wrote on her blog, meanwhile, that while Mr Lei had been toppled, "this is the beginning." She added: "There are bigger officials living out there and I know quite a few of them. I am looking forward to the discipline committee and independent investigator's actions. Xi Jinping, China's new paramount leader, has promised a stinging response to the endemic corruption in the Communist party, and there are rumours of a campaign to begin next year.