Group lambasts DoJ for inaction on GMA graft suit
By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/06/2011The militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan-National Capital Region (Bayan-NCR) and the Imprison Arroyo Movement (IAM) are asking the Department of Justice (DoJ) to proceed with the preliminary investigation into their graft complaint against former President and now Pampanga 2nd District Rep. Gloria Arroyo in connection with the alleged anomalies in her administration’s aborted $329-million national broadband network deal with Chinese ZTE Corp.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima had put on hold the complaint filed by Bayan Muna last year against Arroyo in deference to the creation of Truth Commission by President Aquino that is tasked to put closure to controversies that hounded the administration of Arroyo.
Paulo Quiza, Bayan-NCR spokesman, lamented why the DoJ has not resolved yet the complaint that was filed on July 1 last year, a day after Arroyo stepped out of the Palace and lost her immunity from criminal suits or some nine months ago..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20110406met1.html
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