Double-whammy greets Arroyo for new year
By Gerry Baldo and Jason Faustino 01/03/2012When it rains, it pours, particularly on former president Gloria Arroyo who aside from receiving another graft charge yesterday for an exotic offense called illegal frequencies trading, has also in a strange stroke of luck, had her three graft charges earlier filed by the Ombudsman raffled off to the Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division headed by Associate Justice Gregory Ong, an appointee of former President Joseph Estrada, who was toppled by an elite people power revolution that brought her the presidency in a silver platter in 2001.
Ong, the chairman of Fourth Division, nevertheless, said the cases against Mrs. Arroyo in connection with the botched $329 million National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with China’s Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment (ZTE) Corp. will be treated just like any other ordinary case. Two other graft cases were consolidated in the same court because they were related..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120103hed2.html
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itong altimax-globe deal na ito, talagang anomalous. nakakapagtaka lamang na noong panahon ni arrobo ay tahimik ang marami sa ganitong mga scams, kasama ang evl civil society....obvious bang nakinabang ang evl civil society kabilang ang mga ayala, kabilang ang mga iba pang nagpatalsik sa tunay na halal na si erap estrada.
"“ABC’s moribund franchise — which should have been deemed revoked in 2005 as mandated under R.A. 8607 and whose Provisional Authority to operate was in fact cancelled in 2007 by the NTC — somehow limped like a zombie until 2009 when all of a sudden, the NTC recalled its cancellation order and renewed its grant of Provisional Authority to Altimax. As it turned out, Globe bought into Altimax and transformed the franchise for a ‘National Broadcasting Network’ into a ‘National Broadband Network’ which blatantly violates the congressional franchise,” Guevarra said.
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"Guevarra said that he has talked with whistleblowers who will expose how the former president pressured the NTC through then Commissioner Ruel Canobas to revive the dead Altimax franchise where hundreds of millions of pesos in commissions were to be made from this illegal frequency trading."
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