Official suspended after flirting online

Official suspended after flirting online

A health bureau official in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province in China, has been suspended from his post and is under investigation for flirting with a married woman via his microblog.

According to the city's publicity department the official, known as Weileni5123 on Weibo.com, the Chinese version of Twitter, and the unidentified woman didn't realise that their erotic tweets were visible to all online users, thinking that the platform was a private chatting tool.

Xie Zhiqiang and the unidentified woman didn't realise that their erotic tweets were visible to all online usersThe Modern Express newspaper reported that Weileni5123, turned out to be Xie Zhiqiang, director of the bureau.

He first tweeted on April 7, saying: "You can leave messages here. I promise I will reply every day."

As the tweets grew more heated, he proposed a sexual liaison with the woman, who was married and had a son.

He told her "a relationship without physical contact is not perfect" and said he was looking forward to their "sacred moment."

When contacted by the newspaper, Xie said: "How can you see my microblog? That's impossible!"
Source: Shanghai Daily

Published June 22 2011