The Sandiganbayan has upheld its December 2019 decision dismissing the forfeiture case against the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. and his family, citing lack of evidence.
dismissing the forfeiture case against the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. and his family, citing lack of evidence.
Civil Case 0002, filed by the Office of the Solicitor General against the Marcos family in 1987, seeks to recover the wealth of the Marcoses involving 106 properties "which they acquired during their incumbency as public officers; funds and other property are manifestly out of proportion to their salaries/other lawful income and income from legitimately acquired property which defendants have failed to establish as having been lawfully acquired.
The anti-graft court cited that the Philippine government, in its compliance pleading dated April 25, 2022, admitted that all material and relevant documents and pieces of evidence for the said case have already been presented during trial. "Wherefore, the plaintiff's Motion for Reconsideration dated December 29, 2019, insofar as the properties that allegedly have not yet been recovered by the government are concerned, is denied for its failure to prove its claims through a preponderance of evidence," it added.
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