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AT A GLANCE
 THE
BRIBE
Jose “Joey”
de Venecia III, cofounder of Amsterdam Holdings Inc. (AHI),
claimed Elections Commissioner Benjamin Abalos tried to
bribe him with $10 million to drop his proposal for the
national broadband network (NBN) project and give way for
Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment (ZTE) Corp. when they
met in Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong on
December 27, 2006.
THE PHONE
CALL
In a
notarized affidavit, De Venecia claimed that after
negotiating with ZTE officials, a mad Abalos called him,
shouting profanities and admitting that he had de Venecia
wiretapped.
 MEETING
WITH DAD
On March
2007, De Venecia went to his father, House Speaker Jose de
Venecia Jr., and had a chance to discuss the NBN project
with Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro
Mendoza, who allegedly told him that Abalos wants the
project himself.
 THE
MYSTERY MAN
De Venecia
revealed the President’s husband Miguel “Mike” Arroyo as
the mystery man in the NBN deal. During a reconciliatory
meeting in Wack-Wack sometime in March, De Venecia said
Arroyo pointed a finger at him and told him to back off from
the project.
Abalos,
Mendoza; Jimmy Paz, Abalos’s chief of staff; Quirino ce la
Torre, Abalos’s security staff and former police official;
Ruben Reyes and Leo San Miguel also attended the meeting, De
Venecia said. (BM Research) |
