ART FORFEITED. The Sandiganbayan declared the Marcos family's art collection as "unlawfully acquired."
The 42-page judgment on Civil Case No. 0141 ordered the forfeiture of the family’s “ill-gotten wealth” in favor of the Philippine government.Associate Justice Efren de la Cruz. Associate justices Alex Quiroz and Oscar Herrera Jr concurred. the Sandiganbayan awarded to the State Imelda’s jewelry collection valued at $153,089. In August that year, the court declared that the government owned theThe Sandiganbayan said the evidence met the law's requirements for the forfeiture of unexplained wealth.
The Sandiganbayan said the Marcoses failed to prove how they lawfully acquired the money to acquire a massive collection of artworks between 1972 and 1985.
Sandiganbayan says the entire art collection was acquired unlawfully? But why can’t they prove that the entire billions of dollars the marcoses plundered were also acquired unlawfully because they don’t have the capacity nor capability to earn these billions?
Hopefully, they’re real.