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Sandiganbayan upholds dismissal of Marcos case

Court junks ill-gotten wealth case vs Marcoses

HIDDEN WEALTH The antigraft court has ruled anew that the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, and the Tantocos, their purported dummies, are not liable for billions of pesos in an alleged ill-gotten wealth case filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government. —INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan second division has upheld its initial decision to dismiss a P102-billion forfeiture case filed 32 years ago against the Marcoses due to the missing originals of key documentary evidence.

In a Feb.13 eight-page resolution, the antigraft court dismissed for lack of merit the motion for reconsideration filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government and the Office of the Solicitor General.

It also said the government failed to present any new argument in its motion.

—Patricia Denise M. Chiu

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