BEIJING: Four officials of Shanghai Higher People's Court including judges have come under investigation for involvement in a sex scandal at a night club.
City authorities ordered the probe after there were reports on the internet that the officials had called for prostitutes at the Hengshan Resort in Shanghai on the night of June 9.
Two of the officials being investigated are Chen Xueming and Zhao Minghua, chief and deputy chief of the court's No. 1 civil court, who function as judges.
The Shanghai Municipal Disciplinary Commission, which is the Communist Party's inspection agency, has promised there will be an independent probe and its results will be made public. They will be punished if found guilty, it said.
This is part of the emerging trend of sex scandal investigations and punishment of involved officials in recent months.
A Chinese court recently sentenced Lei Zhengfu, the former party secretary of Chongqing's Beibei district, to 13 years in jail.
Lei was removed after a sex video tape showing him in a compromising situation with several women went viral on the internet.
But investigators later found he was involved in several cases of bribery.
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