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==Olot Resthouse still under government control== | |||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/tacloban/local-news/2011/10/07/olot-resthouse-still-under-government-control-183748 | |||
*By: Sun Star | |||
*''October 07, 2011'' | |||
THE Olot Resthouse in Tolosa town, Leyte remains with the government despite a Supreme Court ruling last year ordering a government body to return ownership of the property to the family of late President Ferdinand Marcos. | |||
Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Commissioner Ma. Ngina Teresa Chan-Gonzaga said Thursday that '''Ilocos Norte''' Representative Imelda Marcos, wife of the late dictator, has not made a claim on the 42-hectare property barely a year after the High Court ruled that the sequestration is invalid. | |||
The Supreme Court issued the order on December 7, 2010. | |||
"The writ of sequestration for Olot property was defective. It has to do with the possession only. In terms of the main case, it is still pending in court. That decision has not been executed and it is still under the possession of PCGG," Gonzaga said. | |||
The court said an order of sequestration could only be issued upon a showing "of a prima facie case" that the properties are ill-gotten wealth, in accordance with Section 26 of Article XVIII of the Constitution. | |||
According to Gonzaga, even if the mansion will be restored to Marcos, there are still limitations like disposing the property since it still under litigation. | |||
In its latest ruling, the Supreme Court said that the lifting of the sequestration order will not necessarily be fatal to the main case since it does not follow from such lifting that the sequestered properties are not ill-gotten wealth. | |||
"Such lifting simply means that the government may not act as conservator or may not exercise administrative or housekeeping powers over the property," the decision said. | |||
On February 28, 1986, immediately after assuming power, President Corazon Aquino issued Executive Order 1, creating the PCGG, which is empowered to recover all ill-gotten wealth of the former President, his family and close allies. | |||
Within a month of its creation, the PCGG moved to sequester any property, documents, money and other assets in Leyte, belonging to Representative Marcos, her brothers Benjamin Romualdez and Alfredo Romualdez, and their agents. | |||
The sequestration order against the Olot Resthouse was issued March 18, 1986. The Marcos widow filed a motion to quash the sequestration order against the Olot Resthouse, claiming that such order was issued only by PCGG agents, violating rules. | |||
The former first lady also claimed that no prima facie evidence that the Olot Resthouse constituted ill-gotten wealth. She pointed out that the property is the ancestral home of her family. | |||
The property has 17-room sitting on 42 hectares of beachfront land, with a golf course, swimming pool, cottages, a pelota court and a pavilion. | |||
Gonzaga said that even if Marcos will claim the estate, it will still be classified as recovered assets with the pending case. | |||
The official confirmed that other than the Olot Resthouse, there are also other PCGG recovered assets questioned in High Court due to defective writ of sequestration. | |||
==PDEA boosts campaign against illegal drugs== | ==PDEA boosts campaign against illegal drugs== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=56424 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=56424 | ||