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Whistleblower Jun Lozada found guilty of graft

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">NBN-ZTE deal whistleblower Jun Lozada awaits Sandiganbayan decision on his graft case this morning. <a href="https://t.co/O1ZSb5K2kg">pic.twitter.com/O1ZSb5K2kg</a>— Carolyn Bonquin (@carolyn_bonquin) <a href="https://twitter.com/carolyn_bonquin/status/767880010174599169">August 23, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" src="~//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script>MANILA - Corruption whistleblower Rodolfo &quot;Jun&quot; Lozada was sentenced to six to 10 years in prison after the Sandiganbayan on Tuesday found him guilty of graft.The case against Lozada stemmed from the lease of public land to his brother and a private firm when he was head of Philippine Forest Corp.The anti-graft court gave Lozada 15 days to appeal his conviction.In 2008, Lozada exposed alleged irregularities in the botched $329-million deal between then president Gloria Arroyo&#x27;s government and China&#x27;s ZTE Corp. to establish a national broadband network.<div><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/02/04/09/jun-lozada-zte-whistleblower-revisited">Jun Lozada: The ZTE whistleblower revisited</a></div>Lozada, an information technology consultant of the government at that time, said former Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos, received kickbacks from the deal. - Reports from Carolyn Bonquin, ABS-CBN News

Corruption whistleblower Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada was sentenced to six to 10 years in prison after the Sandiganbayan on Tuesday found him guilty of graft.

Corruption whistleblower Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada was sentenced to six to 10 years in prison after the Sandiganbayan on Tuesday found him guilty of graft.