At a pre-trial hearing at the Sandiganbayan on Wednesday, his lawyers presented rulings in other cases that favored the family, including a December 2019 decision that rejected the state’s forfeiture case, Second Division Executive Clerk of Court Anne Marie D. Crespillo said by telephone.
The case covered the properties still within the Marcos family’s control, including a beach house, guest house and museum in Ilocos Norte province and a house in Manila, the capital. The court last month allowed the Marcos family to present evidence, rejecting the government’s motion to waive the family’s right to present evidence.
Wednesday’s pre-trial hearing was the second. The Second Division set the next pre-trial conference for Sept. 1, she added. After the dictator died in 1989 in Hawaii, the court ordered his heirs — Imelda, Marcos Jr. and his sisters Imee and Irene — to substitute for him in the case. In 2003, the Philippine Supreme Court awarded to the Philippine government $658 million of the dictator’s frozen Swiss bank deposits. The court ruled only about $304,000 of the Marcos family’s income was lawful.
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