Rodrigo Duterte Asserts Marcos Stole, Sold Gold; Palace Addresses Claims

Former President Rodrigo Duterte has these claims about President Bongbong Marcos.

Malacanang dismisses the claims of former President Rodrigo Duterte regarding the PH gold and current President Bongbong Marcos.

Last weekend during a rally held in Cebu, former President Rodrigo Duterte made claims against current President Bongbong Marcos. He criticized his successor again and alleged that he had sold and stolen the reserve golds of the country.

In a Palace briefing, PCO Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Atty. Claire Castro stressed what the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has earlier stated. BSP stated that “country’s gross international reserves (GIR), including gold, are held and managed solely by the BSP”.

They strongly clarified that this is not used for any other purposes except for the country adhering to forex requirements.

Castro expressed that this issue had been addressed last year already and they wonder why the former president would always bring it up. Duterter as a lawyer and former fiscal, Castro noted that he should have known about bringing evidence to support and prove his claim.

“Ano’ng proof niya? Again, as a lawyer, he is a lawyer, he became a fiscal. Alam niya kung paano magkuha ng ebidensiya. To get the truth. Bakit sa kanya parang wala siyang ebidensya? Laging pa-intriga. All we want here is evidence,” the PCO Undersecretary said.

Castro urged the former president to prove his claims when during his leadership, it has been already a regular activity of the BSP to buy or sell gold “to pump up the economy”. As the former leader of a country, he should be aware of this.

Apart from the claims Duterte made about the gold reserves against Marcos, he also claimed that the current president is veering towards dictatorship, something his father ex-President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. did in the past.

This is accordingly his way of crippling Duterte’s daughter VP Sara Duterte down as she is likely the one who will replace him in the presidency. He believes his daughter always wins in the election.

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