{"id":5213,"date":"2018-07-31T21:50:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:50:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:50:41","slug":"why-the-recovery-of-marcos-ill-gotten-wealth-has-taken-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5213","title":{"rendered":"Why the recovery of Marcos &#8216;ill-gotten wealth&#8217; has taken ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Ma. Theresa Pabulayan, acting Sandiganbayan executive clerk of court, said most cases dragged on for decades because of the legal remedies sought by the government and defendants&#8217; lawyers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8221;These legal remedies are mainly availed by the defendants in order to protect their clients\u2026(thru) several motions,&#8221; Pabulayan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Ang cases natin, meron tayong numerous defendants. In some cases meron tayong 70, as many as 90 and if each defendant\u2026mag-file\u2026napakarami ng motion ire-resolve ng court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(We have numerous defendants in cases. We have as many as 90 defendants in a case. If each defendant files several motions, the court will have to resolve them all.)<\/p>\n<p>Trials were also postponed after lawyers failed to appear, or when some witnesses went missing or became unavailable. Until now, some respondents have yet to be located.<\/p>\n<p>Former Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) commissioner Ruben Carranza blames the Marcoses for the slow disposition of cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Ma. Theresa Pabulayan, acting Sandiganbayan executive clerk of court, said most cases dragged on for decades because of the legal remedies sought by the government and defendants&#8217; lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}