The Presidential Commission on Good Government and the Office of the Solicitor General want the anti-graft court to declare members of the Marcos and Romualdez families in default for failing to respond to a complaint first filed in 1987 and amended thrice, the latest being in 2001. Default in a civil case bars a party from presenting its evidence since it is considered to have waived rights to contest allegations in the complaint. The government case against the Marcoses involves claims over shares of stock in mining, media, financial firms, and real properties all amounting to billions of pesos.
Read more about the PCGG’s motion on Rappler.
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