Marcos loyalist Lozano, 77

MANILA, Philippines — Marcos loyalist lawyer Oliver Lozano died on Thursday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 77.

In a radio interview yesterday, a family member said Lozano experienced “general weakness” after the March 22 heart attack.

He would have turned 78 on May 13.

He earned his law degree from the University of the Philippines. He served as counsel for the late president Ferdinand Marcos.

Last year, Lozano proposed to the Duterte administration a settlement of the long-pending ill-gotten wealth cases against the Marcoses. 

The lawyer said the Marcos family was willing to surrender part of their wealth in exchange for the dropping of the cases. 

During the nine-year term of former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Lozano filed a series of impeachment cases against her.

His complaint in 2005 was based on the supposedly wiretapped telephone conversation between Arroyo and former Commission on Elections commissioner Virgilio Garciliano on the alleged rigging of the 2004 polls.

Lozano also filed an impeachment case against former president Benigno Aquino III, whom he accused of violating the Constitution for his controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program, parts of which the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional.

The Marcos family reportedly sent flowers to Lozano’s wake at Mt. Carmel Church in Quezon City.