Imelda Marcos acquitted of dollar-salting charge

Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos, former first lady of the late president Ferdinand Marcos was acquitted of dollar-salting charge.

The former first lady was acquitted by a local court of 32 counts of dollar-salting amounting to $33 billion filed by former solicitor-general Francisco Chavez in 1991.

The case lasted 17 years under Judge Silvino Pampilo of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 26.

Judge Pampilo said in a 44-page decision, “the government, through the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), failed to prove that Mrs. Marcos, her late husband president Ferdinand Marcos, and late crony Roberto Benedicto conspired not to report dollar earnings from foreign bank accounts.”