Three fuzzy photos of two men having sex on a bed with a woman and a person of an unclear gender are not his, an official surnamed Cheng at the Kunming Development and Reform Commission told government website kunming.cn.
Cheng Jianjun, a section chief at the Kunming Commission of Development and Reform in the Yunnan Province capital city looks like a man in the photos, according to the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily.
The commission official surnamed Cheng told kunming.cn that his head had been artificially “Photoshopped” into the photo set released online Sunday and he has reported the matter to the police, according to kunming.cn.
Cheng also alleged he had been threatened before the photos went public and denied taking or appearing in any.
Web user Dongtaishan posted the photos on a forum of kunming.cn on Sunday, claiming he had found a USB flash disk at a bath center containing pornographic videos taken on January 1, 2007.
The disk might belong to an official at the commission, judging by other files in the disk, he wrote.
Web users split over whether the photo really was Cheng or whether Dongtaishan might be smearing the official, according to kunming.cn.
A man surnamed Cheng claiming himself an official of the commission called kunming.cn and demanded the photos be deleted on Sunday.
A Kunming Public Security Bureau policeman confirmed Cheng had called the police, but declined to reveal detailed information. Calls from the Global Times to Kunming Public Security Bureau went unanswered on Tuesday.
“We’re investigating this affair and we have called the police,” Liu Xinggui, a staff member at the commission, told the Global Times on Tuesday. One of his colleagues was involved in this affair, he said, but he wasn’t sure about the authenticity of the photos.
Global Times