EXCLUSIVE BREAKING: NBN-ZTE deal whistleblower Jun Lozada voluntarily surrenders to the NBI after his arrest warrant was released by the Sandiganbayan. Also arrested is his brother Jose Orlando Lozada. Details to follow. pic.twitter.com/uejuokrgPA
— Niko Baua (@Nikobaua) June 2, 2022
MANILA — Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, the whistleblower in the Philippine government’s scandal-ridden broadband network deal with Chinese company ZTE Corp., surrendered to authorities on Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction in a graft case that also involved his brother.
Lozada turned himself in to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) with his brother.
The graft case centered on Lozada’s awarding to his brother of a leasehold right of some 6,599 hectares of public land, as president and chief executive officer of the state-owned Philippine Forest Corporation (PhilForest) in 2007.
Lozada earlier said he believed that the SC ruling had something to do with his exposè on the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with ZTE.
“My appeal at the Supreme Court was denied. They affirmed my conviction by the Sandigan (Sandiganbayan) to a 6-10 years prison term at the Bilibid (New Bilibid Prisons),” Lozada said in a message to reporters late last month.
“My enemies made good with their threats that they will make me regret for telling the truth," he added.
In a series of Senate hearings from 2007 to 2008, Lozada alleged that officials of...
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