At the beginning of 2012, Lei helped a doctor surnamed Fan obtain a promotion at a hospital in Chongqing, with Lei's wife receiving 100,000 yuan from Fan later with Lei's permission, the court said.
Xiao was given a suspended prison sentence by the court of Shapingba district for "disrupting public order".
The report said most officials would offer to compromise after seeing the video, and Xiao would step in at this time as a mediator.
He was put into a detention center in 2009 and released a year later.