Jun Lozada, the NBN-ZTE Deal Whistleblower surrendered to NBI over a graft case
JUN LOZADA – The whistleblower of the NBN-ZTE deal controversy surrendered to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) together with his brother Jose Orlando Lozada by the virtue of the arrest warrant issued by the Sandiganbayan
The two surrendered to the NBI on Thursday, June 2.
The arrest warrant served to the Lozadas was in relation to Jun’s graft case in 2016 after granting leasehold right to his brother with 6,599 hectares of public land while he was the president and chief executive officer of the state-owned Philippine Forest Corporation or PhilForest in 2007.
Lozada had earlier said that the Supreme Court’s ruling against him was related to his exposure to the government’s national broadband network deal with Chinese company ZTE Corp., in 2007 in which he disclosed that several officials under the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo tried to pocket millions of pesos in the said deal.
“My appeal at the Supreme Court was denied. They affirmed my conviction by the Sandigan to a 6-10 years prison term at the Bilibid,” Jun Lozada said in an interview last month.
“My enemies made good with their threats that they will make me regret for telling the truth,” he added.
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Meanwhile, according to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, the Lozada brothers will serve minimum imprisonment of six years and one month and maximum imprisonment of 10 years and one day. They will eventually be transferred to the New Bilibid Prison for their jail time.
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