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Court asks

Marcos' son to

reveal assets

MANILA: A Philippine judge has ordered the son of Ferdinand Marcos and government officials to submit documents that would reveal the assets of the late president and his family in Switzerland, documents showed.

In a three-page directive August 7, judge Codrigo Lorenzo said he made the order to Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. following a request from former Sen. Rene Saguisag, a co-counsel for some 10,000 victims of human rights abuses committed under the regime of his late father.

The victims recently won a class-action suit in a federal court in Hawaii against the Marcoses. A federal jury awarded $766 million in compensatory damages and $1.2 billion in exemplary damages to the victims.

Lorenzo also ordered executive secretary Reuben Torres and Magtanggol Gunigundo, chief of a special government commission assigned to a worldwide search for the Marcoses' assets, to submit documents in their possession to determine how much money the former strongman had.

Lorenzo also ordered Marcos Jr. to give details about a trip he made last year to Switzerland, reportedly to negotiate with the Philippine government on his family's assets-AP