cuenca’s

The complaints commonly assert that the defendants acted "singly or

collectively and in unlawful concert with one another," and their
reprehensible activities included "the misappropriation and theft of public
funds, plunder of the nation's wealth, extortion, blackmail, bribery,
embezzlement and other acts of corruption, betrayal of public trust and
brazen abuse of power," at the expense and to the grave and irreparable
damage of the Government and the Filipino people,
The cognate reliefs sought by the PCGG in its complaints are the return and
reconveyance to the Government of all funds and other property unlawfully
acquired by the defendants, and consequently impressed with a constructive
trust in favor of the Government and the Filipino people, as well as of the
funds and other property acquired by their abuse of right and power through
unjust enrichment; and the requirement or command that said defendants
account for all legal or beneficial interests in funds, properties and assets of
whatever kind and wherever located, in excess of their lawful earnings,