Guangzhou Vice Mayor Paid ATB Mistress SGD2.8MIL to "Breakup"

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Ex-Guangzhou vice mayor paid mistress HK$17 million in ‘break-up fees’
Thursday, 18 September, 2014, 6:48pm
News›China Insider
Anti-corruption
Chen Yifei [email protected]
Former Guangzhou vice-mayor Cao Jianliao spent HK$17 million to break up with his mistress, a documentary by Guangdong province’s discipline body has revealed.

According to China Business News [1], the documentary was part of a scheme by Guangdong’s commission for discipline inspection to educate officials amid an ongoing anti-corruption campaign by President Xi Jinping.

“I never took small bribes. I aim for the big ones,” Cao was said to have confessed on camera.

The documentary said Cao met his mistress in 1992 while she was still a college student. Even after their relationship ended, he helped her immigrate to an unspecified country, and paid her twice – HK$8 million and HK$9 million – as “break-up fees”.

It also unveiled Cao’s decadent private life. He was said to have had affairs with 11 women since 1988, with his sex partners ranging from government officials, his work associates, company executives, restaurant managers and staff at a tennis shop.

Cao was removed from his post last December and was placed under a graft investigation linked to a controversial village redevelopment project.

He was among the most senior officials to be caught up in Guangdong’s crackdown on corruption.

It is not uncommon for officials in China to invest a large sum of money on their mistresses, but it is rare for them to buy off their mistresses with millions to end the relationship “peacefully”.

Hong Kong ex-chief secretary Rafeal Hui admitted to court last Sunday that he showered a young woman from Shanghai with money and presents after they started an intimate relationship four years ago.

Hui said he could not recall the exact amount he gave to the woman, which was “at least seven or eight million”.

The two met at a social gathering in Hong Kong, and Hui met the woman in Hong Kong as well as Beijing.

The Beijing News [2]reported on Tuesday that a woman disclosed a “termination agreement” between her and an official in China’s Shanxi province to the newspaper.

The agreement stated that the official offered to pay 400, 000 yuan (HK$505,000) to end the relationship after a failed attempt to dump the 26-year-old young woman, who kept harassing him and his family for more than a year.


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