Isn't kiss and tell a no no? This may be an exception...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese bank executive serving a 12-year term for corruption has penned a kiss-and-tell book behind bars in an attempt to help authorities catch his fugitive mistress.
Huang Shishan, 42, a former deputy director of a commercial bank in Zhuzhou in China's central Hunan province, was jailed for embezzling over 600 million yuan (about $75 million) of customers' deposits, the China Daily said.
The paper did not say when Huang was sentenced.
His mistress, Wang Xiangni, was still being sought after having abandoned Huang in the Philippines in 2004 and absconding "with a large amount of cash" after the two fled China, the official paper said.
Huang said he hoped his book, "Hongchun Zhouwen" -- literally meaning "The Cursed Kiss of Rosy Lips" -- would be translated into English to help Interpol track Wang, who is portrayed in the book as mastermind of the bank scam, the paper said.
Wang, a public relations manager at a local fertilizer plant on the verge of bankruptcy and a part-time nightclub dancer, seduced Huang in 1995 to get loans for the plant, according to the account reported in the paper.
The book describes how Huang gradually fell for Wang, and how she "enticed him to embezzle public cash for their personal pleasure," the paper said.
Wang, said to have as much as $758,000 in stolen money, came up with a scam to lure depositors with high interest rates and helped Huang to cover up his crime six times, according to the book.
After the scam was exposed, the two fled to the Philippines where Wang had a distant relative, but Wang then fled to Malaysia, leaving Huang penniless, the paper said.
Wang, forced to work "carrying heavy loads on a wharf" in the Philippines, broke his arm and eventually gave himself up to local police, the paper said. |
