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Edison Chen fingered as the culprit
Tue, Feb 05, 2008 The Straits Times
HONG KONG - The police raided a computer shop on Sunday in their search for the source of the Web sex photos involving actor Edison Chen and other female stars. They raided eLite Multimedia in downtown Hong Kong and took away four computers for investigation. A 29-year-old male ex-employee was arrested earlier at dawn at his home, the eighth suspect to be nabbed so far. His home computer was also taken. Of the eight, four are out on bail. Two of those still held are reportedly, like the latest suspect, working in the computer industry. Oriental Daily said shop workers near the computer store claimed they had seen Chen going in and out of the retail outlet.

But the police have not confirmed if the sex photos of Chen, Cecilia Cheung, Gillian Chung and Bobo Chan - circulated on the Web last week - were real or fake.

Singtao Daily said the police have found, in the computers seized so far, images related to the photo scandal. They feature people resembling over 10 female stars and other women.

Chen, reportedly seen in Boston in the United States, is now being accused as the culprit in the scandal.

Political commentator Raymond Wong was reported by Apple Daily as saying the police needed to seize only Chen's computer to get at the origin of the Web photos.

The Hong Kong Discuss Forum on Sunday had a 'Who's guilty in the photo scandal' poll. Some 76 per cent of voters said the photographer was guilty and 12 per cent pointed to the ones who uploaded the photos.