The Sandiganbayan on Friday denied the Motion for Reconsideration filed by former First Lady Imelda Marcos and her daughter Irene Marcos-Araneta and affirmed its January 2023 Resolution which denied the Marcoses bid to take again the wealth and properties seized from them by the federal government.
“A Motion for Reconsideration should be denied when the same only constitutes a rehash of issues previously put forward. A careful reading of the defendants’ motion shows that they did not present any new arguments which would warrant a reconsideration of the Court’s Resolution dated 25 January 2023,” the Sandiganbayan mentioned.
“[A]fter thoughtful consideration thereof, as well as the records of this case, the Court still does not find any cogent reason to overturn its earlier pronouncements. In view of the foregoing, the defendants failed to show a good reason to justify the discretionary execution of the Decision dated 16 December 2019. The Court thus maintains its earlier pronouncement in the Resolution dated 25 January 2023,” the Sandiganbayan concluded.
The anti-graft court docket, in a January 2023 15-page Resolution on Civil Case 0002, mentioned that 22 properties and property illegally acquired by the Marcos household through the regime of the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and already recovered by the Philippine authorities, transferred to 3rd individuals not included on this case, or turned the topic of Court selections and compromise agreements, have been already “considered moot and academic.”
The Marcoses, of their February 2023 Motion for Reconsideration, argued that the legality of the seizure of the Marcos properties that have been transferred to the federal government or third events was not but moot and tutorial as a result of the PCGG was solely appearing as a conservator of the “alleged ill-gotten properties.”
These properties have been transferred to the federal government by means of compromise agreements with out the consent of the defendants who have been its supposed rightful homeowners.
The Marcoses additionally insisted that the compromise agreements entered into by the PCGG and third events have been null and void for the dearth of consent of the defendants who have been the registered homeowners of the properties whereas the moment case was pending. As such, the Marcoses mentioned such properties needs to be returned to the lawful homeowners.
However, the Sandiganbayan mentioned in its January determination that the Supreme Court’s rulings have been clear in offering for the seizure of the properties from the Marcoses by upholding the validity of compromise agreements between the Philippine authorities – as represented by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), tasked to go after the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses and their associates, and the Office of the Solicitor General – and the Marcoses’ co-defendants.
GMA News Online had sought remark from Senator Imee Marcos on the matter however neither her nor her representatives had responded as of posting time. — DVM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
