{"id":235852,"date":"2019-10-25T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=235852"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:10:36","slug":"palace-respects-courts-verdict-on-marcos-forfeiture-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/25\/palace-respects-courts-verdict-on-marcos-forfeiture-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace respects court’s verdict on Marcos forfeiture case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the executive will let its co-equal branch, the judiciary, to exercise its independence. (File Photo<\/a>: Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday said it respects the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division\u2019s move to dismiss the forfeiture of an estimated PHP267.371 million ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses allegedly obtained through their cronies.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the executive will let its co-equal branch, the judiciary, to exercise its independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Administration does not interfere with the judiciary,\u201d the Palace official said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rule of law must always prevail in courts regardless of who are the parties. Their decision must be accorded respect and obedience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Panelo\u2019s statement came after the Sandiganbayan junked the third civil case against former President Ferdinand Marcos; his wife, Imelda; and spouses Fe and Ignacio Gimenez.<\/p>\n

On July 21, 1987, the Presidential Commission on Good Government and the Office of the Solicitor General filed a complaint about Reconveyance, Reversion, Accounting, Restitution and Damages against the Marcos and Gimenez couples.<\/p>\n

The Gimenez couple were allegedly \u201cclose business associates\u201d of the Marcoses.<\/p>\n

Fe was accused of unlawful transfer of millions of dollars of government funds into several accounts in her name in foreign countries. She also allegedly acted as a conduit for the Marcos family in purchasing expensive works of art and other properties in the United States.<\/p>\n

Fe\u2019s husband, Ignacio, was allegedly a dummy of the Marcoses in certain corporations.<\/p>\n

The Sandiganbayan, in a decision dated Oct. 14, junked the civil case due to insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n

The anti-graft court ruled that there were \u201cdefects\u201d in the pieces of evidence against the respondents.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt is apparent that the defects in the pieces of evidence that were presented by the Republic prevent it from successfully pursuing the present civil forfeiture case,\u201d the Sandiganbayan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday said it respects the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division\u2019s move to dismiss the forfeiture of an estimated PHP267.371 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235853,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235852\/revisions\/235853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}