Two arrested for spreading ‘false rumors’ about executive’s raunchy ‘boardroom sex session’
It appears that this scandalous story is just a lurid bit of fake news that was concocted by gossipy coworkers
An ultra-scandalous story involving a Chinese executive who was rumored to have had sex with a female subordinate in a company boardroom while video equipment from an earlier conference call was still rolling now appears to have been nothing more than a particularly lurid bit of fake news fabricated by gossipy coworkers. Sorry to disappoint.
On Saturday, rumors started going wild on Chinese social media about the alleged encounter which was said to have taken place at the headquarters of China’s Southern Power Grid.
Based on screencaps of WeChat conversations, it was said that the state-owned energy giant had held a video conference call one morning that was attended virtually by employees from five different provinces.
After the meeting was adjourned for a break, one manager was rumored to have decided to make use of the now empty conference room at the company’s Guangzhou headquarters to have a little alone time with a woman who was working under him, not knowing that their raunchy hanky panky session was being livecast to other offices across the country.
An alleged video of their encounter was leaked onto Weibo on Saturday before making the rounds on WeChat. Since then, it has been scrubbed from social media by Chinese censors, along with posts regarding the rumors.
Meanwhile, “Southern Power Grid” (南方电网) and the phrase “Use Love to Make Power” (用爱发电) have become two of the most blocked terms on Weibo, surpassing even “constitutional change” and “Xi Jinping.”
The WeChat screencaps that these rumors were based on also “identified” the two alleged participants in this office romance. However, earlier this week, the manager who had been fingered as the star of the video declared that he had been deliberately framed, vowing to file libel lawsuits against those who started the malicious rumors against him.
On March 13th, Guangzhou police arrested a pair of workers —a 30-year-old man surnamed Tang and a 30-year-old woman surnamed Wang — for allegedly spreading these “false rumors.”
According to a police statement, the two had heard some office gossip about a sex scandal at company headquarters and decided to dramatize it a bit, sharing the rumors, along with a sex video to really spice things up.
The two suspects now face being prosecuted for defamation by their victims and by Southern Power Grid.
It’s not clear where the sex tape they shared actually came from or who the participants starring in it actually are. Some netizens with apparently excellent photographic memories have claimed that the video is an old one, set in a “well-known mobile phone company’s boardroom.”
