A move to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government could mean an end to efforts to recover billions of pesos of ill-gotten wealth from the Marcoses, the Movement Against Disinformation said Friday.
“Goodbye recovery efforts.You are going to lose all the cases pending because the specialists, the lawyers who worked on this will all be gone,” Atty. Tony La Vina, president of the movement, said in an interview with ANC’s Rundown.
The late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr, his wife Imelda, and their cronies are estimated to have stolen as much as $10 billion or more than P500 billion, from state coffers during his 20-year rule, based on the World Bank-United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Stolen Asset Recovery report
A legal luminary in the House of Representatives has argued that the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has "failed" in its primary mandate of recovering the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses.
Cagayan de Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (Facebook)
During a House Com
Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chairman John Agbayani admitted to House members Wednesday morning, Aug. 24 that the agency won't be filing any new cases against the Marcos family on the issue of ill-gotten wealth.
PCGG Chairman John Agbayani (Screenshot from Facebook live)
DAVAO CITY: A Philippine commission created to recover the unexplained wealth accumulated by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his associates has vowed to continue the hunt under the presidency of his namesake son. Marcos led the Philippines from 1965 until he was overthrown by the bloodless popular revolt known as People Power and fled the country in 1986. For part of