6 officers punished for inmate's fraud

Six police officers at Nehe Prison in Heilongjiang province were removed from their posts or received warnings after an investigation into an inmate who swindled money from women he video-chatted with using a cellphone, local news portal dbw.cn reported on Thursday.

Earlier media reports said Wang Dong maintained relationships with at least seven women after chatting with them through WeChat. At least three of the women chatted with him naked, and he forced them to visit him at the prison by threatening to make the recordings public, according to the report.

He swindled more than 110,000 yuan ($17,700) from the women.