A top bank official jailed for corruption has written his autobiography naming and shaming his former mistress who is still on the run.
His apparent hope is that it will help Interpol track her down abroad, and put her behind bars for her alleged involvement in a scam to embezzle millions of US dollars from bank customers.
Huang Shishan, 42, wrote "Hongchun Zhouwen" (literally meaning the Cursed Kiss of Rosy Lips) behind bars, and hopes it will be translated into English to help find Wang Xiangni.
So reported the Democracy & Law Times newspaper.
Wang is believed to have as much as US$758,000 of the stolen money.
Huang was formerly the deputy director of a commercial bank in Zhuzhou in South China's Hunan Province.
Huang and 54 accomplices were together found to have embezzled public deposits of around 700 million yuan (US$88 million). Huang himself was convicted of embezzling public deposits of more than 600 million yuan (US$75 million) and was sentenced to 12 years behind bars.
In the book Huang described how he gradually fell for Wang, and how she enticed him to embezzle public cash for their personal pleasure. He wrote how she abandoned him when the couple fled to the Philippines after the scam was exposed in 2004.
Wang was portrayed as a shrewd witch who seduced Huang, then deserted him and fled with some of the money, reported the newspaper.
Wang, a public relations manager at a local fertilizer plant and a part-time nightclub dancer, is said to have seduced Huang in order to get loans for the plant which was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1995.
Wang then became Huang's mistress and is alleged to have come up with a plot for a bold scheme.
Wang even helped Huang six times covering up his crime when it was about to come to light, the newspaper said.
Wang was said to have set up the scam for Huang to attract public deposits by promising depositors much higher interest rates.
The scheme was exposed in 2004 when local public security staff began a probe after being tipped off by depositors who found they could not withdraw their money as promised.
Wang and Huang fled to the Philippines where Wang had a distant relative.
Both Wang and Huang were on Interpol's "wanted" list. Wang then abandoned Huang and fled to Malaysia with a large amount of cash.
The penniless Huang was forced to work carrying heavy loads on a wharf in the Philippines. But when he fractured his arm, he gave himself up to local police.
(China Daily 10/09/2006 page3)
