[Straits Times] A COURT in the Philippines has frozen US$23 million(S$28.4 million) in bank accounts and assets linked to suspects in the 2009 politically motivated massacre of at least 57 people.
The order by the Court of Appeals on Tuesday targets the assets of the Ampatuans, one of the Philippines' wealthiest and most influential families. Its most senior members are on trial for multiple murder.
The court said the 1 billion pesos (S$28.4 million) includes the assets of the Ampatuans in several government agencies, banking institutions and other entities that are believed to have been used in amassing ill-gotten wealth. |