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Official sacked following racy photo scandal

Xinhua, April 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

An official in Fuzhou, capital city of east China's Fujian Province, was removed from his post after indecent photos of him in a nightclub appeared online last year, the local disciplinary watchdog said on Thursday.

Lin Zonghui, former deputy head of the housing and real estate bureau of Jin'an District, has also been expelled from the Communist Party of China.

Lin was suspended from office in December after twenty-six photos of him appeared in an online thread, in which Lin was caught in an compromising position with waitresses. Endi