Four senior Shanghai judges suspended for hiring prostitutes

Four senior Shanghai judges have been suspended from their posts after it emerged they had hired prostitutes.

An anonymous blogger posted eight minutes of surveillance footage on the internet showing officials picking up prostitutes at the Hengshan Resort.

He said he copied the footage from the resort's security system, pretending he was looking for something he had lost.

The blogger said he began to look into Zhao's (one of the accused) behaviour after suspecting the judge improperly intervened in a civil lawsuit he was involved with in 2009.

He also told the newspaper he had also collected evidence detailing Zhao's frequent and lavish spending habits, his ownership of several homes and extramarital affairs.

The Legal Evening News reported the blogger first informed police about Zhao's association with prostitutes in April, but he became the target of a police interrogation.

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