After decades of being hounded by the Presidential Commission on Good Government, former First Lady Imelda Marcos has fought back against the commission by filing a graft charge Wednesday before the Office of the Ombudsman.

In her complaint-affidavit, Mrs. Marcos accused PCGG Chairman Camilo Sabio and Commissioners Narciso Nario, Ricardo Abcede, Tereso Javier and Jaime Bautista of illegally confiscating her family’s assets.

She said she was acting in her personal capacity and as heir the estate of her late husband, former strongman Ferdinand Marcos.

She sought graft and estafa charges against the PCGG officials for allegedly taking over properties acquired by her late husband without filing any forfeiture case or rendering an accounting of the said assets.

The complaint specifically referred to companies and real estate properties turned over to PCGG by businessman Jose Campos, a self-confessed Marcos financial adviser, in exchange for immunity from civil and criminal suits.

The disputed properties covered a total of 197 certificates of title over several parcels of land with a total area of 17,405,984 sq. meters located in Ortigas Boulevard, Pasig City and Baguio City and in the provinces of Laguna and Cavite, including a seafront with an area of 120-hectares located in Mariveles, Bataan and registered in the name of Anchor Estate Inc.

Mrs. Marcos claimed the takeover was made only in constructive trust but exercise of ownership by PCGG was tantamount to misappropriation or conversion of their property rights, constituting graft and estafa.

“(T)heir exercise of dominion over the same and their unlawful and felonious disposition of some of the subject properties, in flagrant disregard, and to the prejudice of, the estate and the rights of the Marcos family, whose repeated demands were simply disregarded by the respondents, constitute misappropriation or conversion to the great prejudice of the estate of Mr. Marcos and the Marcos family," she said.

She added that to date, ‘no action for the forfeiture of the surrendered corporations and properties has yet been filed by the Republic of the Philippines, but the PCGG took over the possession and management of the surrendered corporations including the properties they owned.’