Imelda jubilant after winning back Leyte mansion
12/15/2010Former First Lady and incumbent Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos was triumphant yesterday after the Supreme Court (SC) returned a beachfront mansion that was seized by the Cory Aquino government in 1987.
The 81-year-old widow said she planned to bring in renovators to the sprawling property in Olot, Tolosa, in Leyte province after the high tribunal handed down its ruling late Monday, as she insisted it had
always belonged to her family.
“I am very happy. This property is very important to me because this is where my father was born,” Marcos told Agence France Presse.
“The property had belonged to my family long before I met Ferdinand Marcos, so how could government say it is ill-gotten wealth? Now I can rebuild it.”
The high court last Monday dismissed a petition filed by the government, which had asked it to make a final ruling on whether it had been allowed to confiscate the property..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101215hed6.html
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