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A government team tasked to recover paintings that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ family allegedly bought with ill-gotten wealth went home empty-handed after searching the family’s mansion in Ilocos Norte.
The team inspected the mansion in Batac, Ilocos Norte for two hours but failed to find any painting, according to a report on “24 Oras” Friday.
However, a lawyer representing the Marcoses spoke with the team.
Last Tuesday, government agents seized at least 15 paintings believed to be part of the Marcoses’ ill-gotten wealth from an ancestral home of the former leader in San Juan City.
It took authorities seven hours to serve a writ of attachment from the Sandiganbayan for the paintings at the time.
On Monday, the anti-graft court ordered the Marcos family to surrender eight paintings by European artists that it said were illegally acquired using taxpayers’ money. — Joel Locsin/JDS, GMA News
