WATCH: Why the plan to return Marcos stolen wealth raises eyebrows
A video on why the offer to return stolen wealth may not exactly be lawful.
President Rodrigo Duterte announced in August that the Marcos family expressed willingness to return a "few" gold bars.
This is acknowledged to be a portion of the wealth the former first family—sent to temporary exile as the Marcos dictatorship was toppled—stole from the public in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The offer, however, is not new to those who have been trying to recover the family's ill-gotten wealth, estimated to be around $10 billion.
While Duterte said Congress could enable the start of the negotiations with the Marcoses, a compromise agreement may not exactly be lawful, an expert said. — Video by Efigenio Toledo IV and Camille Diola
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