{"id":115139,"date":"2017-08-30T23:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115139"},"modified":"2017-08-30T23:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:48:57","slug":"marcos-gold-bars-could-be-certificates-lacson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/30\/marcos-gold-bars-could-be-certificates-lacson\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos gold bars could be certificates: Lacson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lacson said that he recalled a time when Ilocos Norte Congresswoman Imelda Marcos once showed him and some friends gold certificates which he could not tell whether they were authentic. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0— The gold bars owned by the family of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, which President Rodrigo Duterte said they were willing to return to the government, could actually be certificates used for trade, Senator Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I know is that\u00a0ito mga<\/em>\u00a0certificates. Pag-trade mo ng gold,\u00a0di talaga<\/em>\u00a0gold bar\u00a0ang hawak mo<\/em>. These are certificates\u00a0na tine<\/em>-trade\u00a0mo<\/em>. \u2018Di ito<\/em>\u00a0physical state\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0gold bar.\u00a0Yan ang pagkaalam ko<\/em>\u00a0(What I know is that these are certificates. When you trade gold, you don\u2019t really use gold. These are certificates which you trade. It\u2019s not a physical state of a gold bar. That\u2019s what I know),\u201d Lacson told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n

Lacson said that he recalled a time when Ilocos Norte Congresswoman Imelda Marcos once showed him and some friends gold certificates which he could not tell whether they were authentic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember a long time ago, Mrs. Marcos showed us, I was with some friends; she showed us gold certificates.\u00a0Masyadong makapal. Mga<\/em>\u00a0Xerox\u00a0ang nakita namin<\/em>\u00a0so I could not actually make a conclusion at the time\u00a0kung talagang<\/em>\u00a0authentic \u2018yan. But she showed us that (They were too thick. We saw photocopies so I could not really make a conclusion at that time if they were authentic),\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n

He said the late President Marcos had been trading gold long before he became chief executive so it was possible that this was what President Duterte was referring to.<\/p>\n

If it had been real gold bars, Lacson said that they might have been obtained by the Presidential Commission on Good Governance (PCGG) a long time ago.<\/p>\n

The PCGG was created to run after the illegally-amassed wealth of the Marcoses and how much the family owed the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi pa presidente, wala pa sa gobyerno, nagte<\/em>-trade\u00a0na ng<\/em>\u00a0gold\u00a0si dating<\/em>\u00a0President Marcos. So\u00a0baka ito ang nire<\/em>-refer.\u00a0Kung usapan<\/em>\u00a0gold bars, I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s gold bars\u00a0kasi<\/em>\u00a0by this time\u00a0kung may<\/em>\u00a0gold bars\u00a0matagal nang nakuha ng<\/em>\u00a0PCGG\u00a0yan<\/em>\u00a0(Long before Marcos was president, or even in the government, he had already been trading gold. Maybe this was what was being referred to. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s gold bars because by this time if there are gold bars, the PCGG could have acquired them a long time ago),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Lacson welcomed the Marcoses\u2019 move to return their alleged ill-gotten wealth, but noted that talks between the family and President Duterte were still \u201cpremature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think\u00a0napaka<\/em>-premature ng stage ng negotiation if ever there\u2019s such a negotiation between the Marcos family and the executive branch (If ever there\u2019s such a negotiation between the Marcos family and the executive branch, I think it\u2019s in a premature stage),\u201d Lacson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if there\u2019s such an offer, that\u2019s good. Because whatever wealth that can be turned over to the government,\u00a0dagdag sa<\/em>\u00a0(it will add to the) national treasury,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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