No, the Philippines’ Supreme Court did not order the youngest sister of former president Benigno Aquino to return to the government a diamond necklace

The Sabiniya website claims the Supreme Court issued a two-page memo ordering Kris Aquino to return the necklace following a complaint from the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).

It said that Aquino wore the necklace to the 2015 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in Manila.

The PCGG was created in 1987 after a popular revolt led by Kris Aquino’s mother, Corazon "Cory" Aquino, ended the 20-year rule of Ferdinand Marcos.

It was tasked with recovering the ill-gotten wealth of the late dictator and his wife, Imelda.

The PCGG’s spokesman told AFP it did not file any complaint against Aquino regarding the necklace and that its collection of Marcos jewellery was all accounted for.

“No complaint was filed against Kris Aquino,” the spokesman, John Jao, told AFP.
 

“The Marcos jewellery collection stored at the vault of the Central Bank of the Philippines were all accounted for based on the original list made following its seizure in 1986.”

The Sabiniya article, dated Tuesday February 6, said the Supreme Court released its memo on Monday.  

There are no public records of the Supreme Court releasing any such memo. Its decisions are available online.

The Supreme Court also has a Twitter account in which it regularly posts updates on its activities. There is no record of any memo on that account.

Aquino also posted on her official Instagram account in October 2016 that she bought the necklace and said it was of cubic zirconia and silver, not diamonds. 

Benigno Aquino stepped down as president at the end of his six-year term in mid-2016, when he was replaced by Rodrigo Duterte. 

The article has been shared through Facebook groups with combined followers of more than 700,000 people, according to data from social media monitoring tool Crowdtangle.

Most of these Facebook groups support Duterte and the Marcos family.

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