Former Senator Bongbong Marcos said on Thursday his family was offering to sign a “quit claim” deed in which they would identify properties and assets they had acquired legally and relinquish their claim to whatever else the government finds.
“If the government is saying we are hiding other things, we will help you find it and you can have it,” he said, without providing estimates.
Marcos made the pronouncements after President Rodrigo Duterte said the former senator’s family had proposed a settlement on the wealth cases filed against them by turning over to the government some assets, “including a few gold bars.”
Marcos said in a media briefing that discussions on the same were done “sporadically.”
“I don’t think there’s a weekly meeting or anything like that,” he said.
According to the former senator, his family had issued the “quit claim” deed “since the Ramos administration.”
He said this was signed by then-Presidential Commission on Good Government Chair Magtanggol Gunigundo, but then-President Fidel Ramos did not want the agreement to push through.
“That has been the consistent position of the family..Pag-usapan natin. Ano bang pwedeng gawin para matapos na ito,” he said. (Eagle News Service, Agence France Presse)