Twenty-seven years after the ouster of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the public will finally get to see the fabulous jewelry collection amassed by Marcos’ wife, now Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, during the 20 years they held power.
Former First Lady Imelda Marcos’ jewelry from the so-called Hawaii collection and the contested 18.5-hectare prime commercial property Payanig sa Pasig are among the P18.2 billion worth of recovered ill-gotten assets of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos that the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) plans to sell within the next two years.
Government prosecutors have disclosed that former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada has yet to hand over P307,602,835 of the P734.99 million in ill-gotten wealth that the Sandiganbayan Special Division ordered forfeited in favor of the state following his conviction for plunder in 2007.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) will come up in two weeks’ time with its preliminary findings on the offshore trust of Ilocos Gov. Imee Marcos and her three sons in the British Virgin Islands.
The Supreme Court has lifted a freeze order issued by the Court of Appeals on the assets of former military comptroller retired Lt. Gen. Jacinto Ligot and his family, saying the indefinite timeframe of the order violated the family’s right to due process.
A group of martial law detainees on Monday appealed to Congress to automatically consider some 9,000 individuals who won a class suit against the Marcoses in Hawaii victims of human rights violations entitled to government compensation.
Even as people continue to debate the issue of abolishing the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), Malacañang on Thursday said the agency that was created to recover the ill-gotten wealth of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had to be abolished eventually.
At a news conference at the PCGG headquarters on Wednesday, chairman Andres Bautista said his proposal to Malacañang was to transfer the prosecution of Marcos ill-gotten wealth cases to the DOJ and to transfer the sequestered assets to the Department of Finance.
Senators on Wednesday called for a “full accounting and audit” of all sequestered assets of the Marcoses as they backed the proposed abolition of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).
Efforts to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) are officially underway at the House of Representatives, following the filing of a bill seeking to transfer part of its responsibilities to the Department of Justice.
The Philippine government is to wind down a near-30-year hunt for the embezzled wealth of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, with more than half the supposed $10-billion fortune still missing, the man in charge of the search said.
Do Imelda Marcos and Ferdinand Jr. use the same dictionary ordinary Filipinos work by? Read the senator’s delayed reaction to the US $354-million contempt judgment, slammed by the US Court of Appeals (9th circuit) against them.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) led by Chairman Andres Bautista is poised to sell the fabulous jewelry collection of former First Lady Imelda Marcos valued at $10 million to $20 million. Christies, the world’s leading art business and auction house will be tapped to handle the auction but before this takes place, [...]
