Marcos drew a salary of 100,000 pesos a year, and the Philippine Supreme Court took $658 million of his Swiss deposits

Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines from 1966 to 1986. The official salary record puts his pay at 60,000 pesos a year to 1976 and 100,000 pesos a year from 1977 to 1985. He died in exile in Honolulu on 29 September 1989. In Switzerland the government traced US$356 million held through five groups of foundations, with names such as Azio-Verso-Vibur and Maler. On 21 December 1990 the Swiss Federal Tribunal ruled the money belonged in principle to the Philippines. On 28 December 1993 the Marcos children signed a global settlement with the government's recovery commission; it was never approved. The funds reached an escrow account in Manila in 1998. The Sandiganbayan anti-graft court forfeited them in 2000 and reversed itself in 2002. On 15 July 2003 the Supreme Court reinstated the forfeiture of US$658,175,373.60. In 1991 the tax bureau assessed the estate 23,293,607,638 pesos in estate tax. At the auction of 11 seized lots in Tacloban City on 5 July 1993 no one bid, and the lots went to the government. In 1997 the Supreme Court upheld the levy against the eldest son's challenge. On 9 November 2018 the Sandiganbayan convicted Imelda Marcos on seven counts of graft over dealings with Swiss-based foundations in the 1970s and 1980s, with six to 11 years per count. Status: convicted; she filed a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court in November 2018 and was allowed bail; no ruling on the appeal was found^†.