# In Search of the Marcos' Millions

The night that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines' capital to exile in Hawaii, thousands of Manila's poorest citizens swarmed into the Presidential Palace and found evidence of staggering opulence and unimaginable greed. How did Ferdinand Marcos turn a yearly presidential salary of $5,700 into a personal fortune that may have exceeded $10 billion? Frontline follows a paper trail of financial records, many in Marcos' own hand, which document the looting of a third world nation. Kickbacks for major construction projects and other forms of corruption were hidden away in Swiss banks, as well as land and property in the United States, fake companies in Panama, trusts in Hong Kong, foundations in Lichtenstein and corporations in the Dutch Antilles. Despite overwhelming evidence of their greed and corruption, the Marcos' continue to deny any wrongdoing. Frontline also examines how dozens of dictators have been suspected of this same pattern of siphoning off third world wealth and how western banks and their economies benefit from these practices. 1 videocassette (58 min.) : 1/2 in VHS format Title from data sheet Film editor, Chris Lusaught Narrator: Lary Lewman

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1987
- By: Judy Woodruff, WGBH Educational Foundation., PBS Video.
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/InSearchoftheMarcosMillions)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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