Marcos is guilty of corruption
BY JIM GOMEZ A PHILIPPINE court have found the country’s former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of corruption and ordered her arrest.
But she is likely to appeal the conviction to avoid jail and losing her seat in congress.
Marcos, 89, was ordered to serve six to 11 years for each of the seven counts of violating anticorruption laws.
She was found guilty of illegally funnelling about £152million to Swiss foundations in the 70s, when she was Manila’s metropolitan governor.
Marcos’s lawyers are expected to appeal against the ruling.
The court disqualified her from holding public office but she can remain a member of the house of representatives while appealing against the decision.
Marcos’s husband, ex-president Ferdinand Marcos, was ousted by an army-backed “people power” revolt in 1986.
He died in exile in Hawaii in 1989 but his wife and children returned to the Philippines.