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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 14 - DEFINING
THE JURISDICTION OVER CASES INVOLVING THE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH OF FORMER
PRESIDENT FERDINAND E. MARCOS, MRS. IMELDA R. MARCOS, MEMBERS OF THEIR
IMMEDIATE FAMILY, CLOSE RELATIVES, SUBORDINATES, CLOSE AND/OR BUSINESS
ASSOCIATES, DUMMIES, AGENTS AND NOMINEES
WHEREAS, the Presidential
Commission on Good Government was created on February 28, 1986 by
Executive Order No. 1 to assist the President in the recovery of
ill-gotten wealth accumulated by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos,
his immediate family, relatives, subordinates and close
associates;
WHEREAS, the Presidential Commission on Good Government under Executive
Order No. 2, dated March 12, 1986, has likewise been primarily charged
with the responsibility of recovering the assets and properties
illegally acquired or misappropriated by former President Ferdinand E.
Marcos and/or Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, their close relatives,
subordinates, business associates, dummies, agents or
nominees;
WHEREAS, Article II, Section 1 (D) of Proclamation No. 3, dated March
25, 1986, declaring a national policy to implement the reforms mandated
by the people, protecting their basic rights, adopting a provisional
constitution, and providing for an orderly transition to a government
under a new constitution, states that: “The President shall give
priority to measures to achieve the mandate of the people to recover
ill-gotten properties amassed by the leaders and supporters of the
previous regime and protect the interest of the people through orders
of sequestration or freezing of assets or accounts”;
WHEREAS, the vital task of the Commission involves the just and
expeditious recovery of such ill-gotten wealth in order that the funds,
assets and other properties may be used to hasten national economic
recovery;
WHEREAS, the overriding considerations of national interest and
national survival require that the Presidential Commission on Good
Government achieve its vital task efficiently and effectively, with due
regard to the requirements of fairness and due process;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines,
hereby order:
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The technical rules of procedure and evidence shall not be strictly
applied to the civil cases filed hereunder.
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Done in the City of Manila,
this 7th day of May in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-six.
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