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ICYDK: Ferdinand Marcos Has a

Guinness World Record
But should it be something to be proud of?

by Christa I. De La Cruz
Sep 4, 2020

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Ferdinand Marcos holds the Guinness

World Records title for the "Greatest
Robbery of a Government." ILLUSTRATION WAR
ESPEJO

(SPOT.ph) Early this week on September 2, the

House of Representatives approved a bill
designating September 11 as "President
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Day." Should it
become law, the day will be a special non-
working holiday in Ilocos Norte—the late
dictator's home province. September also
happens to be the month when the entire
Philippines was placed under Martial Law a!er
Marcos announced the news on national
television in the evening of September 23, 1972.
With these two anniversaries coming our way—
and in case you didn't know—Marcos happens
to be recognized by the Guinness World
Records for the title "Greatest Robbery of a
Government."

According to the Guinness World Records'

website, "the government of the Philippines
announced on April, 23 1986 that it had
succeeded in identifying U.S. $860.8 million
(£569.5 million) salted away by the former
President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1917–
1989) and his wife Imelda. The total national
loss from November 1965 was believed to be
U.S. $5 to $10 billion."

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The citation also narrated how the Marcoses

fled to Hawaii in 1986, where the former
president died three years later. In 1991, Imelda
returned to the Philippines and was found
guilty of corruption in 1993. Guinness World
Records added that the former first lady was
cleared of all charges on appeal in October
1998. She evaded two criminal corruption
charges with a sentence of nine to 12 years in
prison on each count.

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The Guinness World Records, formerly known

as The Guinness Book of World Records when it
was first published in 1955, annually lists world
records of human achievements and extremes
of the natural world. It was the brainchild of Sir
Hugh Beaver, and was co-founded by Norris and
Ross McWhirter in London in August 1954. It is
on a mission to "be the ultimate global
authority on record-breaking" by "researching,
measuring, documenting, and authorizing the
world's superlatives."

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P. 281 of the 1987 Guinness Book of World

Records (access through archive.org)
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RECORDS

Though not anymore explained in the Guinness

World Records citation, Imelda in August 2019
was also found guilty of seven counts of gra! by
the Sandiganbayan Fi!h Division for using her
position as Minister of Human Settlements to
maintain Swiss bank accounts during her
husband Ferdinand Marcos' regime. This
conviction sentenced her to imprisonment of
six years and one month to 11 years for each of
the seven counts, with perpetual
disqualification from public o"ice. A warrant of
arrest was also issued by the court. She was,
however, allowed to post bail amounting to
P300,000.

According to the Philippine Commission on

Good Governance, the Marcos family's ill-gotten
wealth "is estimated between U.S. $5 billion to
U.S. $10 billion, the bulk of it being deposited
and hidden abroad." That's at least P251 billion,
only P170 billion of which has been recovered in
the last 30 years.

Marcos also ranks second in Forbes' top 10 list

of "The World’s All-Time Most Corrupt
Leaders." Former Indonesian president
Mohammed Suharto is on first place, while
former Zaire president Mobutu Sese Seko. The
list also recognizes former president Joseph
Ejercito Estrada as the 10th most corrupt leader
in the world.

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The webpage for the "Greatest Robbery of

a Government" title, which was attributed
to Ferdinand Marcos on April 23, 1986,
cannot be accessed as of March 10, 2022.
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Wayback Machine shows that Guinness

World Records' webpage for the title
"Greatest Robbery of a Government" was
last archived on March 9, 2022 at 7:39
a.m. PHOTO BY WAYBACK MACHINE

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Digital footprints show that Guinness

World Records' webpage for the title
"Greatest Robbery of a Government"
existed. PHOTO BY WEBSITE/GOOGLE

UPDATE (March 10, 2022; 4:30 p.m.): Guinness

World Records' webpage for the title "Greatest
Robbery of a Government" has been deleted
from the o"icial website as of March 10. Records
from Wayback Machine indicate that the
webpage was still up as of March 9. SPOT.ph
has reached out to Guinness World Records
through a press inquiry, but has not received
a response as of this update.

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