The corruption charge against a CCTV reporter actually involves the gift of a car worth about 200,000 yuan ($28,500) given to her by her boyfriend, Zhou Ze, a lawyer for the journalist, said yesterday.

"The corruption charge is nothing but revenge," Zhou said.

"The so-called bribe is just a 200,000 yuan car given to her by her boyfriend, and the local procuratorate took advantage of this since Li Min, the reporter, had filed a report against the procuratorate previously."