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(Eagle News)– The Sandiganbayan has released a warrant of arrest against former First Lady Imelda Marcos. The Fifth Division issued the same following Marcos’ “unjustified” absence during the promulgation of her case related to the creation of organizations in Switzerland while she was in government on Friday, Nov. 9. During the promulgation, the anti-graft court found Marcos guilty of seven counts of graft. According to the division, “the bonds posted by the accused in the […]
(Eagle News) — Idinepensa ni Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Oscar Albayalde ang tila pagiging malambot ng PNP sa nakatakdang pag-aresto kay dating First Lady Imelda Marcos na hinatulang guilty ng Sandiganbayan sa pitong kaso ng graft. Ikinukumpara kasi ito sa pagiging agresibo ng PNP sa pag-aresto kay Senador Antonio Trillanes IV noong Oktubre. Ayon kay Albayalde, ikinokonsidera nila ang pagiging babae, may edad at ang kalusugan ng dating unang ginang. “Wala tayong nakikitang magiging […]
(Eagle News)—The Supreme Court has upheld Imelda Marcos’ acquittal from charges of dollar-salting, or the stashing of foreign money in bank accounts abroad without authority from the Central Bank. This was after the High Court upheld the Court of Appeals’ decision denying the former solicitor general Frank Chavez’s petition against the refusal of Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr. of the Manila Regional Trial Court to inhibit from the case. “There was nothing remarkable about the denial of the motion […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court has upheld the Sandiganbayan’s junking of the ill-gotten wealth case filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government against former President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife Imelda, and his alleged cronies. In upholding the anti-graft court’s August 5, 2010 ruling against the Marcoses, construction magnate Rodolfo Cuenca, Manuel Tinio, Victor Africa, Roberto Cuenca, Mario Alfelor, Don Ferry and Oscar Beltran, the SC’s First Division said the “Republic […]
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos has lost a long fight to reclaim jewels confiscated when her husband, the late President Ferdinand Marcos, was ousted, with the Supreme Court ruling she acquired them illegally. The items worth $150,000 are now the property of the state, the court ruled, paving the way for the possible sale of a much larger collection of Marcos jewellery that could net the government millions. “Petitioners failed to satisfactorily […]
(Eagle News) – Former First Lady Imelda Marcos and the rest of the Marcos family returned to the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Saturday, November 19, in thanksgiving ceremonies for the burial of the late President Marcos the previous day (November 18) Busloads of Marcos supporters from the Ilocos region also arrived to see the late President, whom they call “Apo.” There were at least 2,000 Marcos supporters from the Ilocos region who joined […]
