Marcos Jr., wife’s declared net worth is a drop in the bucket of Marcos’ stolen wealth
KARAPATAN Public Information
PRESS RELEASE
May 21, 2026
Reference: Kris Lacaba, CARMMA convenor, 0916-2813811
CARMMA secretariat, 0918-9790580
Marcos Jr., wife’s declared net worth is a drop in the bucket of Marcos’ stolen wealth
“There is a lot they are not telling us,” was the reaction of the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA) to news reports that Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos declared a net worth of ₱475.93 million in 2025. With their wealth steadily growing since Marcos Jr. took power in July 2022, their 2025 net worth is ₱146.70 million or 30.8% higher than their declared net worth of ₱329.229 million as of June 30, 2022, the eve of Marcos’ presidency.
“Substantial as their current net worth may be,” said CARMMA spokesperson Kris Lacaba, “this is a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $10 billion the Marcoses stole from public coffers during martial law”.
Since his ascent to power, said Lacaba, Marcos Jr. has made it his mission to recoup his family’s ill-gotten wealth that the government has sequestered. Out of a total of 28 criminal cases and 43 civil and forfeiture cases filed against the Marcoses at the Sandiganbayan from 1986 to 1995, at least seven have been dismissed, all during Marcos Jr.’s watch as president. In 2023, the Sandiganbayan dismissed two ill-gotten wealth cases against the Marcoses, ostensibly for lack of evidence, decried Lacaba.
As a key administrator of the Marcos estate since his dictator-father’s death in 1989, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been at the forefront of his family’s legal battles to recover and secure their ill-gotten wealth. He is also assumed to have had a decisive say in their family’s continued refusal to pay their estate tax obligations of ₱203 billion since 1997.
“There have been exposés that Marcos Jr. plays the central role and has the biggest take in the bureaucratic corruption scandal, and this is nowhere reflected in his declared net worth,” averred Taguiwalo.
“In sum,” she said, “Marcos Jr., as executor of his father’s estate and as the Philippine president sitting at the top of the bureaucratic corruption pyramid, has continued to take and take and take, refused to pay what his family owes the Filipino people, and is showing us a greatly reduced version of the growing piles of money he is sitting on.”
“CARMMA denounces this blatant pattern of Marcosian greed, and demands accountability from this kleptocratic family,” concluded Lacaba.
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