An unlikely group of self-styled whistleblowers has emerged to expose Chinese officials' corruption as President Xi Jinping pledges to clean up government corruption in China, with a 26-year old woman named Ji Yingnan claiming that her fiance, a powerful official in Beijing, had been married with a teenage son the entire time they were together.
According to The Washington Post, in recent weeks, Ji has released hundreds of photos online that offer a rare window into the life of a Chinese central government official who, despite his modest salary, was apparently able to lavish his mistress with luxury cars, go on shopping sprees at Prada and tuck more than 1000 dollars in cash into his lover's purse every day when they first met.
The lady put her head in her hands saying she never knew that the person she loved would become an enemy and recalled how it was terrifying to experience this kind of relationship.
Ji identified her former lover as Fan Yue, a deputy director at the State Administration of Archives, the report said.
A powerful energy official, Liu Tienan, lost his job in May after his former mistress told a journalist that Liu had defrauded banks out of 200 million dollars, the report added.
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