Marcos accused of stealing

Mon, 08 Jun 1998, 00:00 WIB | Source: DPA

MANILA (DPA): Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos
allegedly stole a Mother-Pearl icon and a frame containing her
picture from a shrine in her eastern home province of Leyte, a
report said yesterday.

Salvador de la Paz, a representative of the government agency
recovering stolen assets by the Marcoses, told the Philippine
Star that he has asked the former congresswoman to return the
items taken without permission from the Sto. Nino Shrine in
Tacloban City.

De la Paz said the items were part of sequestered Marcos
assets housed at the shrine. Guards were unable to stop the 68-
year-old widow of former President Ferdinand Marcos, who was
accompanied by private escorts and foreigners.

There was no immediate reaction from Marcos, who is struggling
to keep out of jail for a 1993 graft conviction.

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