OTTAWA—Two Ivory Coast men have been reportedly been arrested in relation to the sexting and extortion attempts that brought down former Conservative MP Tony Clement. An Ivory Coast police report said two men, identified only as CH and DML, have been charged with attempted fraud and threatening to publish sexual images of a Canadian national. Then-Conservative MP Tony Clement asks a question in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in 2017. Clement said the person or people behind that account then demanded the married MP hand over 50,000 Euros ($75,000). The Ivory Coast police report said the two men posed as a young woman named “Brianna Dounia,” chatting with a Canadian and a French national.

Source: thestar January 19, 2019 18:11 UTC