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                    [ArticleID] => 698013
                    [Title] => Sandiganbayan junks graft case vs Marcos crony
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The Sandiganbayan has junked an ill-gotten wealth case filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) against the late Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco more than two decades ago.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 175694 [Title] => PCGG’s Swiss lawyer has brod in bank with Irene’s ‘account’? [Summary] => A ranking executive of the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), where Irene Marcos-Araneta and Greggy Araneta allegedly keep an estimated $13.2-billion account, is believed to be a brother of controversial Swiss lawyer Martin Kurer who works for the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), an official said. [DatePublished] => 2002-09-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 160084 [Title] => PCGG uncovers new accounts [Summary] => The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) said it has uncovered new bank accounts and receipts of purchases of jewelry and paintings in the United States under the name of the social secretary of former First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos.

PCGG Commissioner Ruben Carranza, however, could not give an estimate how much the assets, found under the name of Vilma Bautista, are worth.

"How much is involved, we still don’t know. But they are substantial accounts," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 157170 [Title] => FM cronies’ Swiss accounts refrozen [Summary] => A Swiss court has granted a Philippine government petition to re-instate a freeze on bank accounts containing $16.5 million held by three alleged cronies of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, it was announced in Manila yesterday.

The ruling by the Zurich Appeals court reversed a decision by a Zurich district attorney earlier this year lifting the freeze order on the accounts of former Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco, Alfredo de Borja and Carmencita Clavecilla, all Marcos allies.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156730 [Title] => Bejo, 12 other FM ‘cronies’ summoned [Summary] => The justice department summoned Tacloban City Mayor Alfredo "Bejo" Romualdez, brother of former First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, and 12 other Marcos "cronies" in connection with ill-gotten wealth cases which the Presidential Commission on Good Government has filed against them.

Senior state prosecutors Jude Romano and Miguel Gudio and state prosecutor Roberto Lao, who compose the panel looking into the cases, summoned the 13 respondents to appear at the department on April 19.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153197 [Title] => High Court upholds Sandigan acquittal of Velasco [Summary] => The Supreme Court has upheld a 1999 Sandiganbayan decision that acquitted former Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco for lack of evidence in a criminal complaint filed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).

The PCGG filed a petition for certiorari questioning the Sandiganbayan decision that ruled there was no evidence to support the complaint that Velasco utilized government resources in the amount of P3 million to construct and maintain the Telin Beach Resort.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 142846 [Title] => PCGG to file forfeiture cases vs Bejo, et al [Summary] => The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) is set to file forfeiture cases in the Sandiganbayan to recover the Swiss deposits of four Marcos cronies and relatives, including Tacloban City Mayor Alfredo "Bejo" Romualdez.

PCGG chief Haydee Yorac said the assets have been frozen since 1986 along with the $660-million escrow deposits at the Philippine National Bank.

The deposits, she said, are under the name of Alfredo ‘Bejo’ Romualdez, former Energy Minister Geronimo Velasco, Alfredo de Borja and Carmelita Clavecilla.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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