FACT CHECK: Marcos didn’t have 50-year gold time deposit FactsFirstPH
had said that the Marcoses’ ill-gotten wealth deposited in banks in Switzerland, Singapore, and the US, have since been turned over to the Philippine government.
Rappler also reached out to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas but it did not confirm nor deny the possibility of putting gold in a time deposit account. –Katarina Ruflo is a graduate of Rappler’s fact-checking mentorship program. This fact check was reviewed by a member of Rappler’s research team and a senior editor.
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