description: Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS While Clement is not named in the report, the descriptions of the alleged crime match his description of the sexting and extortion scandal that cost the longtime MP his place in the Conservative Party.CTV, citing sources, reported Friday night that the two men in question attempted to blackmail Clement after he sent them sexually explicit images, believing them to be a young woman, according to The Toronto Star. The Star has not independently confirmed the connection. 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 MP Tony Clement asks a question in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in 2017. We have no comment, wrote Clement's lawyer, Joseph Neuberger, in an email to the Star Saturday morning. Clement said the person or people behind that account then demanded the married MP hand over 50,000 Euros 75,000 . Clement announced he would step back from his committee duties, and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer stood by the longtime MP and former leadership rival. Article Continued Below Clement shocked Ottawa watchers in November by revealing he had sent sexually explicit images to a person he believed was a consenting adult.
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