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Yi Yunqing spoke at a press conference (photo fromXinhua Microblog)
A senior Chinese official has lost his job months after his jilted lover's story got online.
Yi Junqing, director of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has been removed from post for "improper life style," the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday in a one-sentence story. Other Chinese news outlets have revealed more details of the case.
The English-language newspaper the Shanghai Daily said the sacking comes after a woman claiming to be his mistress posted a 122,000-word account of their alleged love affair online.
Yi, with a rank equivalent to vice-minister, has been the bureau's head since 2010. His downfall comes as the ruling Community Party's new leaders have declared war on corruption and state media has exposed a raft of sex and other scandals.
According to the Shanghai Daily, Chang Yan, a postdoctoral researcher at the bureau, recounted in her online post 17 incidents when she claimed to have slept with Yi and said she had offered him a lot of money to be with him in order to get a Beijing hukou, a permanent residence permit.
After finding that Yi could help her get the permit, she claimed asking for "compensation" and said Yi offered her a million yuan (US $160,740).
Chang later deleted the online account and offered an online apology, saying that she had made up the story and had been suffering from depression due to pressure of work.
"In my spare time I put together a work of fiction", the online apology reads, "I suffered serious depression...and regularly sank into a state of delusion and even fantasy."
Yi, 55, worked in northeast China's Heilongjiang province as propaganda chief and president of the Heilongjiang University before coming to Beijing. The bureau's many duties include research into Marxism and its development, and preparing foreign translations of important documents.
