“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. claims he has "not touched" the Arelma and other ill-gotten cases filed against his family since they were living in exile in Hawaii.”
What Vera Files found
Rulings of the SC in 2012 and 2014 show that Marcos was involved in the litigation of cases related to Arelma, Inc. long after the family returned to the Philippines from exile in Hawaii in 1991.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 15 April 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 18 April 2024, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/V8pbAKe_6ZI?t=1529
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