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Estimates of the alleged ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family vary, [17] [18] with most sources accepting a figure of about US$5 billion–10 billion for wealth acquired in the last years of the Marcos administration, [1] [19] but with rough extreme estimates of wealth acquired since the 1950s going as high as US$30 billion.
Oct 27, 2021 · How big is $10 billion? If it were to be declared as the net worth of the Marcos family, they would be second to the Philippines' richest, the Sy siblings who are worth $16.6 billion, and ahead of other top billionnaires Manny Villar, Enrique Razon, and the Gokongwei siblings.
Aug 6, 2021 · American lawyer Robert Swift has spent decades looking for traces of the hidden wealth of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos after he won a class action lawsuit in Hawaii for victims of Martial Law.
May 3, 2022 · Marcos and his family have defied court orders and appealed rulings requiring them to surrender assets. They are still defendants in at least 40 civil cases related to their wealth.
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Even before entering politics, Ferdinand Marcos's reputation was based on a fraud. He claimed to be "the most decorated war hero in the Philippines", who had been awarded three US army medals from World War II. But while Marcos had served in the US Armed Forces in the Philippines, the country's National Historical Commission later declared that his...
Stories of Marcos's turbulent last days in power and their flight into exile are legendary. By 1983, as resentment against his reign was already rising, senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, a long-standing political rival, was shot dead on the tarmac of Manila Airport as he returned from years in exile. His assassination helped trigger a wave of protest...
One of the earliest acts of the new government of Corazon Aquino was to set up a Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), tasked with tracking and recovering the missing millions. In 1986, the year Marcos went into exile, the World Bank estimated his fortune at up to $13.5 billion, while the average income for ordinary Filipinos was just ...
More than 36 years after Ferdinand Marcos was ousted and the family fled into exile, not one person has gone to jail over their illegally acquired wealth, though not for want of trying. The family was allowed to return to the Philippines in 1991, after the dictator's death. Imelda Marcos was charged with about 60 criminal and civil charges includin...
Despite the divisive legacy of his family, Imelda and Ferdinand's son Bongbong Marcos has emerged as the frontrunner to become president in elections on May 9. Recent opinion polls show he has the support of 56 per cent of voters, well ahead of his closest rival, Vice-President Leni Robredo on 24 per cent. Boxing great-turned-senator Manny Pacquiao...
Jan 25, 2013 · The name of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is synonymous with greed and excess, but investigators are struggling to track down her missing wealth.
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May 5, 2022 · Ferdinand Marcos Jr., known as Bongbong, has a double-digit lead in a May 9 election that in many ways has become a referendum on his father’s legacy. Barring a last-minute upset, Marcos Jr.’s...
