Former Iloilo governor Arthur Defensor Sr. has asserted that presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos has a role” in his family’s ill-gotten wealth.
In an interview over radio station RMN-Iloilo, Defensor said several ill-gotten wealth cases against the Marcos family remain pending before courts.
“Bongbong Marcos has a role in the cases,” he added.
Defensor was a former commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), a quasijudicial agency created in 1986 to recover billions of pesos worth assets allegedly stolen by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, his family, and their cronies.
In a report by inquirer.net, Ruben Carranza, also a former PCGG commissioner, said “to this day, the PCGG is still running after at least P125 billion more from the Marcos family.”
According to him, Marcos Jr. and other family members “had gained from the stolen wealth from 1972 to 1998.”
The PCGG discovered in 1998 that Marcos Sr. deposited $2 million worth of assets with Merrill Lynch Securities in New York in 1972 under the Panamanian corporation Arelma S.A.
In a forum last January, Marcos Jr. said he will obey whatever the courts will decide on the pending ill-gotten cases.IMT
