on february 5, as the senate arresting team waited on the ninoy aquino international airport (naia) on lozada's arrival, lozada was taken by unidentified people "out of town" and lozada's kin appealed for help on his whereabouts. on february 7, lozada finally surfaced as police took him to la salle green hills, mandaluyong city. lozada linked mike arroyo and abalos to the zte scandal. on the same day, the supreme court stopped the senate from arresting neri, ordering a status quo; neri then resurfaced after the threat of arrest was taken off.