A Vancouver-born actor and singer appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Monday morning to testify about his role in a Chinese celebrity sex scandal.

Edison Chen apologized last year after admitting he took the photographs which later were circulated on the internet that showed him and several Chinese stars engaged in sex acts. See all the pictures at Pamporn.Com

The photos touched off a media firestorm that rocked the Hong Kong movie industry and led to a massive police investigation into the publication of the photographs on various websites.

Chen has since refused to return to Hong Kong to participate in the trial of Sze Ho-Chun, a Hong Kong computer technician who allegedly distributed photos across the internet.

The Hong Kong court including a magistrate and several lawyers booked a courtroom at the B.C. Supreme Court on Monday to hear Chen’s testimony.

Chen testified Monday that he will not reveal anything of an intimate nature regarding any of the women in the photos.

“They have suffered enough. I believe it’s wrongdoing to them for me to state facts that I believe are irrelevant to this case,” Chen said in testimony for a trial taking place in Hong Kong.

Dressed in a black suit, black tie and tan dress shirt, the singing and acting star was greeted Monday by a crowd of fans and photographers as he entered the courthouse.

The scandal began when the performer sent his laptop computer to a shop for repair.

The computer contained approximately 1,300 photos of Chen and a bevy of female Chinese celebrities either posed suggestively or engaged in sex acts, according to police.

Someone then allegedly stole and subsequently published the images on the internet in January 2008.

Chen testified Monday that after he saw the pictures circulating on the internet with file names that matched those on his computer, he concluded the pictures had been stolen.

Police in Hong Kong, Taipei and mainland China eventually arrested several people in the distribution of the photographs over the internet. At least one person has since been convicted for the distribution of the images.

Authorities also called on Chinese internet service providers to filter or delete the images should they come across them.