Jun Lozada, NBN-ZTE deal whistleblower, released from Bilibid — BuCor
In a message to GMA News Online, BuCor said Lozada and his brother, Jose Orlando Lozada, were released on May 9.
BuCor said Lozada served his minimum sentence and became eligible for parole.
In 2007, the Ombudsman accused Lozada of partiality and giving unwarranted benefits when he awarded over 6.599 hectares of public land to his brother under the Lupang Hinirang Program of the Philippine Forest Corporation.
The siblings were found guilty of graft by the Sandiganbayan in August 2016.
In 2022, the Supreme Court affirmed with modification the graft ruling against them. They were sentenced to a minimum imprisonment of six years and one month and maximum imprisonment of 10 years and one day.
Lozada was a whistleblower in the multi-million NBN-ZTE deal involving former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. —AOL, GMA Integrated News
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