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Lozada ‘Lawyer’ May Be Disbarred
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) will deliberate on Wednesday whether lawyer Antonio Bautista should be disbarred for allegedly forcing national broadband controversy witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. to sign an affidavit about whose content he had reservations.
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NBN Witness: US$65-M Overprice Acceptable
IT expert Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., who had attended meetings where the alleged overprice in the government’s national broadband network (NBN) contract was structured, on Friday told a Senate hearing that the project with the Chinese firm could have pushed through if a government official agreed to limit kickbacks to only US$65 million.
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Senate Wants ZTE Contract Re-computed
So that government officials involved in the alleged anomaly can be pinned down in future criminal cases, the Senate will ask independent consultants to compute the possible overpricing of the national broadband network (NBN) contract that the government awarded, but later withdrew from, a Chinese IT firm.
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Senate Wants Absent ZTE Witness Arrested
Senators has ordered the arrest of a government official for failing to attend Wednesday morning a hearing where he was expected to explain how a government computerization contract with a Chinese IT company was overpriced by around US$200 million.
A warrant of arrest was issued for Rodolfo Lozada Jr., the chief executive officer of state-run Philippine Forest Corporation, who is said to be familiar with the pricing structure of the ZTE Corporation’s national broadband network deal wi...
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Neri, JDV III Lied – Abalos
“He is lying under oath.”
This was what Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Benjamin Abalos told a Senate hearing when asked to categorically deny earlier claims by former economic planning secretary Romulo Neri that he tried to bribe the latter over the national broadband deal.
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Abalos Offered Me P200M – Neri
Commission on Elections chair Benjamin Abalos tried to bribe former economic planning secretary Romulo Neri over the national broadband deal that was eventually bagged by the Chinese company ZTE Corp., Neri himself told a Senate hearing today.
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GMA Played Golf with Businessmen Who Bagged Broadband Deal
With a finger pointed directly at the face of Iloilo Vice Gov. Rolex Suplico who was seated beside him, businessman Jose “Joey” de Venecia III reenacted his encounter with First Gentleman Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo last March, where the latter reportedly told him to “back off” from the controversial $320-million National Broadband Network project with ZTE Corp.
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Gloria ‘Like A Thief in the Night’
With the government’s contract with Chinese technology firm ZTE Corp. at the center of controversy for being allegedly overpriced by an estimated 130 million dollars, what could be more embarrassing—or foreshadowing—than an official government release likening President Arroyo to a “thief in the night” when she witnessed the signing of the questionable deal?
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Romulo Neri: Say No and Tell
It looks like there was indeed an attempt to bribe former chief economic planner Romulo Neri to approve the government’s US$329-million contract for a national broadband network with the Chinese firm ZTE.
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