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- £ WORLD, Page 66World NotesPHILIPPINESA Big-Bucks Verdict
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- Imelda Marcos will now have to find her shoe money
- somewhere else. She suffered a stinging -- and costly -- legal
- setback last week, when the Swiss Supreme Court cleared the way
- for the return to the Philippines of $350 million deposited in
- Swiss banks by her husband, former President Ferdinand Marcos.
- The court ruled that the money, which has been frozen in
- several banks since the Marcoses fled Manila in February 1986,
- would be returned to the country if a Philippine criminal court
- issued a legally binding verdict against the couple.
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- President Corazon Aquino hailed the ruling as a "victory
- for the people." Neither Marcos, who died in exile in September
- 1989, nor his widow has ever been charged with a criminal
- offense in the Philippines, but prosecutors expressed confidence
- that the problem could be sidestepped by rulings in the civil
- suits filed against the Marcoses.
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