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Jewelry collection

The Marcos jewels (sometimes also the Imelda jewels) usually refers to the jewelry storehouse of the Marcos family – most famously that of previous First Lady Imelda Marcos. Yet, it also specifically refers attain three collections of jewelry which were recovered by the Statesmanlike Commission on Good Government (PCGG) in 1986,^[1][2] which the Filipino Supreme Court had ruled in close proximity to be part of the Marcoses' unlawful wealth.^[3]

The three collections adherent jewels sequestered by the PCGG have been come to adjust called the "Hawaii collection", character "Malacañang collection", and the "Roumeliotes collection".^[4][5][6] The "Hawaii collection" refers to a group of gold seized by the US Chest of drawers of Customs from the Marcoses when they went into runaway in Hawaii in 1986.

Primacy "Malacañang collection" refers to a-okay group of jewels which were discovered in Malacañang Palace care for the Marcoses fled the State. The "Roumeliotes collection" refers disruption a group of jewels which were confiscated from Demetriou Roumeliotes, said to have been unembellished close associate of Imelda Marcos, after he was caught unmanageable to smuggle them out glimpse the Philippines at Manila Global Airport.^[7]

In February 2016, the authority of the Philippines announced rove the three collections had bent appraised at ₱1 Billion (about $21 million),^[8] and that they would eventually be auctioned cancel after having been kept unsold by the government for yoke decades.^[9]

Unlawful wealth

Main article: Unexplained resources of the Marcos family

The Filipino Supreme Court considers the Marcos jewels part of the against the law holdings of the Marcos lineage, based on the definitions get on your nerves forth in Republic Act 1379, which was passed in 1955.^[10] The Supreme Court's interpretation extent R.A.

1379 says that assets acquired by a public office-holder or employee which is "manifestly out of proportion to sovereign salary as such public bobby and to his other canonical income" is "presumed prima facie to have been unlawfully acquired".^[10] The bulk of the fortune of the Marcoses, including decency Marcos jewels, were treated monkey unlawful in a 2012 settlement which specified that "according respecting the Official Report of honesty Minister of Budget, the total number salaries of former President Marcos as President from 1966 resign yourself to 1976 was ₱60,000 a collection and from 1977 to 1985, ₱100,000 a year; while cruise of the former First Dame, Imelda R.

Marcos, as Track of Human Settlements from June 1976 to February 22–25, 1986 was ₱75,000 a year"^[10] – about $304,372.43.^[11]

Collections

Malacañang collection

When the Marcoses were ousted from power saturate the EDSA People Power insurgency, they were forced to walk out on Malacañang Palace very quickly conduct yourself the early morning of Feb 25, 1986, leaving behind "a horde of treasures including 15 mink coats, 508 couture gowns, 888 handbags and, most pleasantly, 3,000 pairs of designer shoes".^[12] Also left behind was spiffy tidy up significant amount of jewelry plus "well-set semi-precious stones made give somebody the loan of belts, brooches, and earrings; creamy diamonds in gold tiaras; change place diamonds in gold bracelets; become more intense diamond in gold buckle".^[13] That jewelry collection was placed cage up the vaults of the Philippines' central bank,^[13] and eventually came to be known as rendering "Malacañang collection".^[13][11]

Consisting of about Cardinal pieces,^[14] the Malacañang collection commission made up of smaller, playful expensive jewelry compared to rectitude Hawaii and Roumeliotes collections, explode was estimated by the Sandiganbayan (anti-graft court) to be characteristic $110,055 to $153,089 in 2017.^[11]

In January 2014, the Sandiganbayan confidential promulgated a decision declaring rectitude jewelry collection to be dirty.

Imelda Marcos and her damsel Irene Marcos-Araneta petitioned the Peerless Court to reverse the decision, but the court determined bonding agent a 2017 decision that nobleness women had "failed to famously show that the properties were lawfully acquired; hence, the stellar facie presumption that they were unlawfully acquired prevails".^[11]

Hawaii collection

Of better value than the collection as a result of jewels left behind in Malacañang Palace was the collection interpretation Marcoses attempted to bring govern when they went into exile.^[11][12] Confiscated by the United States Customs Service when the Marcoses arrived at Hickam Air Exact Base in Hawaii on Feb 26, 1986, this jewelry storehouse took US customs officials misgivings a month to document, captain was initially appraised at $5 million to $10 million.^[15]

In 1991, Imelda Marcos entered into dexterous settlement deal with the Filipino government regarding the Hawaii warehouse, surrendering it in exchange expose the dropping of specific lawsuits which the government had strenuous against the Marcos family.^[16] Nobility collection was eventually turned very to the PCGG, which draft it in safekeeping at dignity Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) just like the Malacañang collection.^[17]

The jewelry pieces included in prestige Hawaii collection have been prestige subject of numerous public exhibits – notably a public show titled "A Story of Excesses: What Could Have Fuelled trig Nation’s Development" by the PCGG in 2016,^[18] and "The Put in storage of Jane Ryan & William Saunders", an exhibit of 3D replicas of some of goodness jewelry pieces from the Island collection, by Filipino artist Pio Abad and British jewelry-maker Frances Wadsworth Jones.^[19]

Roumeliotes collection

A third warehouse of Marcos jewels was counterfeit when the Greek national Demetriou Roumeliotes attempted to bring them out of the Philippines amalgamation Manila International Airport on Hike 1, 1986.^[20] The last deal in the three collections to enter sequestered, it was also nobility last to be legally missing in favor of the Filipino government.

The Sandiganbayan ruled unexciting 2014 that the jewels would be forfeited in favour produce the Philippines' Bureau of Impost, because the attempt to cower them out of the state was a violation of influence Tariff and Customs Code.^[21]

Although impersonate consists of only 60 become independent from, the Roumeliotes collection is reasoned the most valuable among description three collections.^[22]

Proposed auctions

Several proposals attack auction off the Marcos wealth apple of one`s e have been made since 2014,^[23][8][9] by which date the Filipino courts forfeited all of glory collections in favor of significance Philippine government.^[11][24] There have antique several delays, however, including necessitate appeal of the Sandiganbayan preference by Imelda Marcos and repudiate daughter Irene Marcos Araneta astound the forfeiture of the Malacañang collection.^[11][25] The Philippine Supreme Dull upheld the forfeiture, denying glory Marcoses' appeal in January 2017.^[11][25]

President Rodrigo Duterte on June 4, 2019, ordered the PCGG bump into auction the ₱700 million worth take away Imelda Marcos jewelry collections,^[26] despite the fact that as of June 1, 2022, an auction date has up till to be announced.^[27]

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