Jocelyn "Jocjoc" Isada Bolante (born August 27, 1951[1]) is a Filipino politician who formerly served as an Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines.
He was implicated by the Philippine Senate to the ongoing investigation related to corruption concerning fertilizer funding while serving as a government official.
[2][3][4] The corruption related to fertilizer funds was exposed when news broke that a Filipino journalist, Marlene Garcia-Esperat (who was from Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines), was killed on March 24, 2005.
[1] Bolante was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Undersecretary of Agriculture for Finance and Administration in 2001.
Based on his statements, the fund was "taken from" the Department of Agriculture's "2003 budget and distributed to local government officials (105 congressmen, 53 governors, 23 mayors) as project proponents two weeks before the 2004 elections, and was believed to have been diverted to the campaign pot of President Gloria Arroyo.