| Dante Madriaga an engineer who worked as a consultant with the Chinese company ZTE, looks around as he takes his oath before members of the Senate committee investigating alleged bribery in a broadband contract with the Chinese company Tuesday at the Phililppine Senate in Manila. (AP Photo) |
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MANILA -- A new witness Tuesday told the Senate that China's ZTE Corp. has paid at least $41 million in advance to the gang of four or the Filipino group in order to push through with the national broadband network (NBN) deal.
Dante Madriaga, a communications engineer and new witness of the Senate probe on the NBN-ZTE deal, tagged the gang of four composed of former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr., Ruben Reyes, Leo San Miguel, and retired General Quirino de la Torre and the first couple into the controversy.
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