Month: February 2008

Rules of Court

Armed Men: reconstruction of the events

In a live phonepatched  interview of Atty. Reynaldo Princesa, lawyer of ZTE witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, by DZMM’s Ted Failon between 8:45 am to 9:10 am, the lawyer said the following:      

         Now that he was no longer bound by the privileged nature of attorney-client communication because his client had been released (by the way, under the Rules of Court, the privileged nature of  attorney-client communication  is carried by the lawyer to his/ her grave; but anyway, we don’t mind that he gave the public the  full story), he will narrate everything that transpired from the time he was told that his client was taken by armed men at the tube of the exit of the airplane and up to the time  his client surfaced; and why they filed a petitions for the privilege of the writs of habeas corpus and amparo.      

       He said:     

         1.Tuesday, Feb. 5, afternoon, the witness was taken by armed men at the tube of the airplane.    

      2.Still  Tuesday, afternoon  to about late evening or 10 pm, the witness was driven around by the armed men, out of town.   

       3.The armed men got a call.  The armed men asked the witness where he wanted to be brought, and he said to the La Salle brothers.          

        4.Between 10pm and 12 midnight of Tuesday  Feb. 5, he and the armed men arrive at the La Salle Greenhills compound. His family was there. The armed men did not leave.      

        5.Atty. Princesa  told the family that even if the client was already at the La Salle compound, the presence of the armed men still constituted restraint, so they should go ahead with the filing of their petition for the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus but he  would add a plea for the writ of amparo because they needed a protection order against the armed men.     

        6.Wednesday morning, the witness was again brought out or taken away from the La Salle compound by the armed men. He was in the custody of the armed men the whole of Wednesday.     

         7.He was brought to the La Salle compound again at 8:00 pm of Wednesday, Feb. 6. It was at this point that he was asked to sign the “affidavits”, un-notarized, the letters “requesting” for security, etc.       

         After the signing, the armed men were still there.      

       It wasn’t clear at what point  the armed men pulled out, but at some point either in the evening, midnight or before dawn, the armed men pulled out.    

          8. Thursday before dawn, Feb. 7 at 2:00 am, the witness decided to go public with the press conference.   

             ( i have to pull out now, sorry for the rush, i haven’t been posting photos and paintings for hurrying out i’ll be back in three hours.  But i’m not armed.)           

messages

spontaneous text

Because it sounds spontaneous, and it looks like an SMS (text message) i’m posting this comment as a blog post:  

      From joy |                                              

        Quote “para sa akin hindi liar si jun lozada,naawa ako sa family nya.at sa kay jun,at super swapang talaga si abalos na yan.lalong nalugmok sa kahirapan,at sa utang ang pilipinas dahil sa mga BUWAYA sa gobyerno.at sana ung mga taong envolve pa dito,please lumabas na kau .mas maganda kung samasama kaung mag diin kay mike arroyo.” Closed-quote. Feb 7, 9:44 PM — 

      Dear Joy,      

      Salamat sa iyong sulat. Sana mas lalong luminaw lahat-lahat. (Thank you for writing. I hope everything becomes all the more clear.)

breaking news

breaking news: 2:25 am ZTE witness Lozada surfaces

Breaking news: ZTE witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada surfaced five minutes ago, at 2:25 am in La Salle, Greenhills, in the company of priests and nuns.

     In a press con, he said:

    1. quote “during the first meeting to evaluate the NBN project, i recommended that the cyberducation project be removed. In the second meeting, i recommended that the two proponents (Joey and  Abalos) get together and put the project together, Joey’s was BOT, and i recommended that.

    2.quote “The trouble started when Abalos wanted to protect his $130 million dollar commission (his exact words.)

     3. quote “I told them it might be a little too big, bubukol ho ito. Baka kalahati siguro pwede. Joey went ballistic: saan nya kukunin ang $130 million. I didn’t know what to say, i said problema nyo na ito, basta make sure you get this together because we don’t want another Atong Ang and Chavit Singson na sasabog ito.

    4. quote “sometime in December si Yuyung and  Fania were getting frantic. I assured them it was okay.

     5. quote “At this point, Abalos was getting impatient and wanted to get on with the project all alone. I said hindi pwede,  dapat BOT, hindi pwede i-utang.

   6. quote “Tinawagan nya si FG. Di ko narinig and sabi ni FG. Then Abalos said Kung ganyan kayo kausap, di bale na lang.

     7. quote “then a letter from the Chinese goverment came. sometime December. addressed to Mike. saying that there was now money available for the loan for the  NBN project separate from the cyber-ed project.

     8. quote “I told the secretary about it. He said, Jun you moderate the ______(“greed”?)

    9. quote “Abalos invited us for dinner, sometime in December, with Joey, and FG. He said, pare okey na kami ni Joey.

     10. quote “they went to China. I did not join them anymore.

     11. quote “Sometime in January Abalos invited me to dinner with Yuyung and Fania and the chairman said the project was a go. There was some awkward reaction from the ZTE officials. I left the room. When i came back, there was a quarrel between Chairman and the ZTE officials, because the  ZTE officials were saying that the project should be like North Rail.

  

     12. quote “Then Abalos told me, alam ba ni Romy Neri yang ginagawa mo. Alam mo ba na malapit ako sa pulis? Alam mo ba na malapit ako sa militar? Tinatraydor nyo ako ni Joey, mga hayup kayo, ipapatay kita.

     13. quote “When i quit the project it was at  $262 million.   When it was approved, it was  $329 million.

     14. “This project is just one example of a systemic transactional problem, there are many others. etc.”

     Then he said, pasensiya na kayo dun sa mga pinirmahan ko nung dumating ako, i signed that in their company, i hope you understand.

      then he talked of the risks he was taking, then he started to cry.

     he was still crying when i stopped typing. It’s 2:55 am.

     Okay i’m still typing. he said he did not request for any security from the PNP. He said he was driven around Calamba, Laguna, etc. until  the group got a call to turn back. He said he’d by a hypocrite if he said he wasn’t scared.

     He said this evening, the men asked him where he wanted to be brought; and he said, with the La Salle brothers.

     he said the “pananakot” was not explicit but implicit, because he didn’t know them.