the office of the ombudsman indicted gloria macapagal-arroyo, jose miguel arroyo, abalos, and former transportation secretary leandro mendoza for graft concerning alleged unlawful intervention in the zte national broadband project on december 28, 2011. ombudsman conchita carpio morales affirmed the indictment in march 2012. party-list representatives neri colmenares and walden bello called for a banning of zte operations in the country until its record in the scandal had been clarified.