Death threats cow Imelda Marcos

Death threats cow Imelda Marcos

MANILA (AP): Former first lady Imelda Marcos asked a Manila newspaper to halt a series of articles about her claims of amazing wealth, saying she had received numerous death threats, the newspaper reported on Thursday.

"It's getting too dangerous," she told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. "My fax machine is throwing up death threats. We had to change the number."

Marcos claimed she had to add 25 bodyguards and borrow a bulletproof car from her nephew, the newspaper said.

The Inquirer has been running daily stories based on a series of interviews with Marcos in which she claimed her family secretly owns majority stakes in at least 200 companies, including most of the Philippines' leading corporations, through "cronies" who held the stock on paper.

Marcos said she had decided to reveal the holdings because many of the cronies had betrayed her family's trust by keeping the assets for themselves when her husband, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was ousted from power in 1986.