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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=88666
Abalos denies bugging Speaker De Venecia's son
By Leila Salaverria
Inquirer
Posted date: September 14, 2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Finding himself in another wiretapping
controversy, Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos denied
Friday he ordered the bugging of the phone of Joey De Venecia III in
connection with the $329 million national broadband network deal and
branded the latter's allegations as "ridiculous."
Abalos called on the public and the media not to believe the
statements of the son of House Speaker Jose De Venecia, and said his
lawyer was preparing to file several libel charges against the
younger De Venecia for his continued attacks on the elections official.
De Venecia said in an affidavit that Abalos, in a fit of rage,
blurted out that he wiretapped De Venecia's phone to monitor his
conversations with officials of China's ZTE Corp., which bagged the
NBN deal. De Venecia's Amsterdam Holdings, Inc. submitted an
unsolicited offer to implement the project but he said it was not
even considered.
De Venecia said he had told ZTE officials over the phone that Abalos
wanted a $130 million kickback for the project and thus posed the
biggest obstacle to the deal. AHI attempted to enter into a comprise
with ZTE for the NBN project.
"I find it ridiculous. Wiretapping?" Abalos said in a phone
interview. "You know better than that. What are my qualifications? He
makes himself incredible."
He lamented the series of allegations against him, saying those were
hard to believe.
"First, my sexual prowess. And then my influence with Cabinet
officials. And now this," he said.
Representative Carlos Padilla has accused the Comelec head of
receiving sexual favors in return for brokering the NBN deal between
the Philippine government and China.
Asked what he thought De Venecia's motive was in issuing the sworn
statement, Abalos replied, "I don't want to speculate. I don't like
speculations. I don't know his motives."
According to Abalos, De Venecia's statements showed people what kind
of a man De Venecia was. He also said De Venecia's statements should
be scrutinized.
"I am appealing to the public and the media to be very careful with
his statements," he said.
Abalos also said he remained unaffected by De Venecia's claims, but
his family, especially his wife, was taking the attacks hard.
"I can take it in stride. But my wife could not sleep. She doesn't
want to read the papers anymore. I understand I'm the headline again
of your paper," he said.
The Comelec was earlier embroiled in a wiretapping controversy after
one of its commissioners, Virgilio Garcillano, was allegedly recorded
discussing how to rig the 2004 presidential election on the telephone
with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Arroyo has admitted speaking to an election official whom she did not
identify during the 2004 presidential election period. While she
apologized for it, she has denied allegations of cheating in the election.
Neither the Comelec nor the administration has investigated nor shown
any interest to investigate the bugging that led to the recording of
the "Hello, Garci" tape.
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