Abalos

Along with First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, former Commission on Elections chair Benjamin Abalos was fuming hard when Lozada broke his silence and corroborated Joey de Venecia's earlier allegations that Abalos indeed negotiated the broadband deal by deliberately overpricing the project by as much as US$130

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In the same conference, Lozada invoked his earlier testimonies that former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos, who resigned after the Joey de Venecia, the son of House Speaker Jose de Venecia, implicated Abalos as the mastermind behind ZTE broadband scandal.

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Abalos appeared to have been irritated after his name was again implicated by a certain Rodolfo Lozada, president of the Philippine Forestry Development Council and who served as its technical adviser on the ZTE broadband project of the government.

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But when Abalos came into the picture, he was surprised to find that contract was jacked up by another US$130 million.

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Of this amount, the Chinese firm gave Abalos a US$ 2 million check as his advanced commission.

Missing key witness in ZTE broadband scandal surfaced 2008

One letter to Gus Stanisic, which Abalos remembers Stanisic's reading out loud, contained a promise: "He told Gus that when and if he got back from Vietnam he would go to divinity school to atone for his sins."

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Lozada revealed in a Greenhills presscon that he was with Abalos during a meeting at Shangrila Hotel in Mandaluyong City, to discuss about the ZTE deal, when he urged First Gentleman Mike Arroyo to convince his wife to set aside a loan intended for the ZTE project rather than opting for the build-operate-transfer scheme.

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It wasn't exactly clear how and in what manner Abalos scolded the mediamen following him to the golf course.

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Lozada said that during a meeting at the Shangrila Hotel in Mandaluyong, he overheard Abalos convincing First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, who was in the same meeting, to convince President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to work out a deal that would make the ZTE broadband deal as part of the loan by the Philippine government from China.

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Abalos 'resignation paves way for further probe on ZTE deal by Al Jeratso

Abalos' resignation paves way for further probe on ZTE deal 2007