Senator Bongbong Marcos has attributed to politics the staging of an online exhibition of the Marcos jewelry collection that was seized by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) in the aftermath of the people power revolution that toppled the government of his father, the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. The PCGG’s online exhibit titled “virtual jewelry exhibit, a story of excesses: what could have fueled a nation’s development” began on March 16. The PCGG said […]
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Value of Marcos jewelry collection stored in BSP vault now at P1 billion
MANILA, Feb. 15 — Following the weeklong appraisal in November 2015 of the massive ill-gotten jewelry collection seized from the Marcoses and stored in a vault at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for almost three decades, the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) announced that the value of all three collections now amounts to a conservative estimate of at least P1 billion. This is based on the reports submitted by Christie’s and Sotheby’s, which […]





