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Studies on disinformation state that the denial of the Marcos kleptocracy is a common theme of disinformation campaigns and "networked propaganda". [80] [81] False claims about the source of Marcos stolen wealth have circulated, including conspiracy theories about the Tallano gold and the Yamashita treasure.
Tallano gold refers to a set of interrelated conspiracy theories and internet scams [1] [2] which claim that before Spain colonized the Philippines, the archipelago and surrounding territories were ruled by a certain Tagean Tallano family, that the family owned a vast amount of gold, and that former president Ferdinand Marcos obtained his family's unexplained wealth by receiving some of the ...
After Ferdinand Marcos and his family were sent to exile in Hawaii, President Aquino's Executive Order No. 1 on February 28, 1986, created the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG). The mandate of the PCGG was to recover all the ill-gotten wealth of Ferdinand Marcos, his family, relatives, associates, and cronies.
Marcos being given command of a front line units, and this was also corroborated by officers of the 21st Division. [10] [11] Marcos's direct commanding officer in G-2 of the 21st Division, Maj. Romulo Manriquez, denied any knowledge of Marcos's exploits. Controversially, in 1982, Marcos would gift Manriquez gold-plated his and hers Cartier ...
A 2005 image of 40 Wall Street, one of four Manhattan buildings purchased by the Marcoses in the early 1980s. The overseas landholdings of the Marcos family, which the Philippine government [1] [2] and the United Nations System's Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative [3] consider part of the $5 billion to $13 billion "ill-gotten wealth" of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, are said to be distributed ...
Ferdinand Marcos (right) with his family in the 1920s. Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos was born on September 11, 1917, in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, to Mariano Marcos (1897–1945) and Josefa Edralin (1893–1988). [67] Mariano Marcos was a lawyer and congressman from Ilocos Norte, Philippines. [68]
Ferdinand Marcos won his first campaign for the Philippine Presidency in November 1965, and was inaugurated just before New Year's Day in December the same year. Under the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines which was in force at the time, Marcos was supposed to be allowed a maximum of two four-year terms as president. [1]
Ferdinand E. Marcos: Commemorative 25-Piso Coin with Ronald Reagan ... 10,000-piso Commemorative Gold Coin (1992) 500-Piso Banknote (2010–present) 8: 12: Fidel V ...