WITH the passing of former Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza, the respondents in the $329-million national broadband network (NBN) deal was trimmed down to three.

Left to face the graft charge on the botched telecommunications deal are former President and now Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga, her husband Jose Miguel Arroyo and former Elections chair Benjamin Abalos.

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