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Frontline•Season 5•Episode 11

In Search of the Marcos Millions

May 26, 1987
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The day Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fled the Philippines in 1986, they left with $8.9 million in jewelry, cash, and bonds. But the Philippine government claims they took much more, plundering the wealth of the nation, stashing it in fake companies and secret bank accounts.