Marcoses distance selves from loyalist’s ‘compromise deal’ with Palace
Lawyer Oliver Lozano INQUIRER file photo
The Marcoses have distanced themselves from lawyer Oliver Lozano after the latter submitted a draft proposal to Malacañang regarding a compromise deal with the government concerning the family’s wealth.
In a text message on Tuesday, lawyer Victor Rodriguez, spokesman of former Senator Bongbong Marcos, said that Lozano, a known Marcos loyalist, is not affiliated nor does he represent the family.
“The Marcos family has no knowledge or information of that apparent exchange and service of document between Lozano and the office of Sec. Sal (Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo),” Rodriguez told INQUIRER.net.
“As a point of information, Oliver Lozano does not represent any member of the Marcos family or the estate of the late President Marcos,” the spokesman stressed.
READ:Palace: No deal with Marcoses on wealth, only a draft proposal
Panelo on Monday said his office had received Lozano’s proposal offering the government a cut of the family’s wealth in exchange of dropping all cases against the late dictator’s kin.
Malacañang, however, has only received a draft proposal but it has not yet made a deal, presidential spokesman Harry Roque clarified following reports of the compromise deal.
Lozano’s draft proposal stated that Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II and former Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos “personally appeared” in Batac, Ilocos Norte on September 21, 2017 to acknowledge the compromise deal.
The proposal, however, does not contain any signature of the two.
Moreover, Aguirre denied any knowledge of the deal. “I have not heard of it before,” the justice secretary said on Monday.
The Marcos family, meanwhile, would talk Lozano out of pushing through with his draft proposal to Malacañang, their spokesman said.
“The family will be meeting soon, designate someone to talk to Atty. Lozano and dissuade him from doing what he has been doing without authority from anyone of the Marcoses,” Rodriguez told INQUIRER.net. /jpv
