-Caveat Lector- from: a friend: ----- Kris, FYI (This came from xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). Interesting, I think. *** The following excerpts were taken from an article written by Donna S. Cueto is as it appeared on the front page of most Manila newspapers July 17, 1999. It contains revelations of Marcos' gold recoveries by Mr. Enrique Zobel who is a billionaire Filipino businessman, owner of San Miguel Corporation and many other companies, and a very credible information source. BUSINESS magnate Enrique Zobel said he had around 200 witnesses who could testify on the existence of the Marcos gold, including those who had dug it up and a European associate who knew about the secret Marcos accounts. In a letter faxed from Spain to former Solicitor General Francisco Chavez on Thursday, Zobel said he was also willing to testify at the Senate inquiry set next month on the secret $13.2-billion ''I. Arenetta'' account and the gold hoard of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Zobel, who was one of Marcos's critics, was paralyzed from the neck down after a polo accident in Spain in 1991. He has since been confined to a wheelchair. Now 72, Zobel had earlier estimated the gold hoard to be worth $35 billion, based on documents and certificates that Marcos showed him in late 1988. He was named one of four trustees of a foundation that Marcos wanted to set up then. The dictator died a year later. ''I have approximately 200 witnesses who dug up the gold in the Philippines and can testify (as to) the locations, dates and the amounts,'' Zobel said in his letter to Chavez, a copy of which was made available to the Inquirer.'' Regretfully, most of them are afraid to come out in the open.'' He said one of his close friends, a European whom he described as ''quite knowledgeable about the Marcos accounts and somewhat involved with a European government,'' was also willing to testify and show proof of the Marcos accounts. ''These people are willing to testify before the Senate as long as I am present with them,'' Zobel said. He said he also knew someone who had pictures of the actual gold bars with the original identifications. He added: ''I have heard all kinds of rumors of negotiations being done abroad between high-ranking government officials and Marcos's representatives so that all of their Philippine taxes would be avoided and the Filipino people would be kept unaware of the true situation. How sad!'' Zobel also disclosed alleged attempts by the present Presidential Commission on Good Government to get information from him on the secret Marcos accounts early this year, two months before he left for Spain. This was after Australian investigator Reiner Jacobi had exposed the $13.2-billion account under the client number of Marcos daughter Irene Araneta, and informed the PCGG about it. Jacobi said the Marcos gold, which he had confirmed based on evidence, amounted to 1,241 tons. ''The PCGG sent Commissioner Antonio Rosales, with some of their top ranking officials, a lawyer and an ex-manager of one of the sequestered firms, to visit me at my house in Alabang,'' Zobel said. ''I told them that I would give the information I have to the President or to the Senate, only because I do not trust the PCGG.'' He said the PCGG had not tried to talk to him before, although it knew that he had knowledge of the Marcos gold as well as other information revealed to him by the dictator himself. Zobel said Marcos had also told him of how ''presidential relatives and some PCGG people were asking for funds,'' among other things. He said these persons were relatives of former President Corazon Aquino ''Keep all the above in mind should you need further ammunition. Hope your Senate hearing in August will be a success,'' Zobel said. ''It is so refreshing to find out that somebody like you is interested in the Marcos gold issue, as this, I believe, would be the salvation of the Filipino people. ''Hope you will help our country recover the gold finally, before it all disappears without a trace.'' A thumbprint of Zobel was affixed to the letter. Chavez faxed a letter to Zobel in Spain last July 12, in answer to the businessman's letter questioning the former solicitor general's reasons for investigating the Marcos gold. Our thanks to Mr. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for sending this to us in text form via E-mail. END TRANSCRIPT ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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