THE SUPREME Court was asked yesterday to reverse an Ombudsman decision clearing former first gentleman Jose Miguel T. Arroyo and seven others of liability in the canceled National Broadband Network (NBN) project.
Lawyer Ernesto B. Francisco, Jr. filed a petition for certiorari questioning the exclusion of Mr. Arroyo from those charged with graft by the Office of the Ombudsman for their alleged participation in the $329-million NBN deal between the government and Chinese firm Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Co. Ltd. (ZTE). The project was scrapped in 2007 on charges of overpricing.
On April 21, 2009, an Ombudsman investigating panel dropped from the charge sheet Mr. Arroyo, Leandro B. Mendoza, former Transportation secretary; Lorenzo G. Formoso III and Elmer A. Soneja, former Transportation assistant secretaries; and ZTE officials Yu Yong, George Zhu Ying, Fan Yang and Hou Weigui.
Source : http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=14882
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