An official from Shaanxi province was suspended on Wednesday after a series of photos showing him naked on a bed with a woman were posted online by a woman claiming to be his former girlfriend.

Qin Guogang, 56, deputy principal of Shaanxi Provincial Party School under the Shaanxi provincial committee of the Communist Party of China, was suspended as the case was placed under investigation.

The woman, surnamed Li, a 35-year-old single mother with a teenage daughter, claims that Qin told her he was single and that he would marry her. When that turned out to be false, they quarreled, and she was later beaten by Qin and his wife, her lawyer said.