From AP, via Aljazeera.Net: Japan has revealed that one of its diplomats, who committed suicide in Shanghai, had been set up with a woman by Chinese intelligence agents in a blackmail scam to obtain classified information.
Describing the scandal, Taro Aso, the Japanese foreign minister, said: “They approached him, offering to arrange a sexy woman for him.””Then he was blackmailed to give away secret codes for classified information. It is clear from a suicide note he left.”Aso said the Japanese consular official killed himself in May 2004 after having an affair with an unidentified woman.
