Monday, October 08, 2007
Manila: Lawmaker bares bribe try to support Arroyo impeach raps (7:50 p.m.)
MANILA--A militant congressman revealed that a close ally of Malacañang allegedly attempted to bribe him in exchange for endorsing the impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
During Monday’s plenary debates, Anakpawis party-list Representative Crispin Beltran claimed that he was offered P2 million last Friday, the same day that lawyer Rafael Pulido filed the complaint against the President and endorsed by Laguna Representative Edgar San Luis who is a known ally of administration.
According to him, he was approached twice last Friday in his residence in Bulacan province in the morning and inside the House session hall in the afternoon.
Pulido, a former lawyer of Oakwood mutineers, has filed before the impeachment complaint against President Arroyo for betrayal of public trust following her alleged failure to stop the reported bribery in connection with the scrapped National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with China’s Zhong Xing Telecommunications (ZTE) Corporation.(Sunnex)
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