Rappler obtained newspaper clippings and court pleadings to fact-check Marcos’ claim that he has never seen gold in his life, and these records show he was either lying to the press and the court back then, or is misleading the public now. PHVote WeDe...
or the long-believed tale that they got a share of the Japanese Yamashita gold, Marcos denied knowledge of it.
. Luz had asked Marcos about “all this business about gold and shiploads of it. How come you are talking about it more openly now?”In 2007, Marcos took the gold claim to greater heights. He used it to try and win back the Ortigas Payanig property in Pasig from the national government. After the 1986 people power revolution ousted Marcos and forced the family into exile, Campos voluntarily turned over this property to the government. The Ortigas firm had wanted it back but in 2020, the Sandiganbayan dismissed Ortigas’ petition, retaining the ownership of the government through the Presidential Commission on Good Government .
Marcos Jr. attached the dying deposition of one Constante Rubio, who said he was a close associate of the dictator, and that “FM [Marcos] took me into his confidence and asked me to assist him in his business of trading metals, more specifically gold,” according to the excerpt of the deposition that Marcos Jr. put into his motion.
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