MANILA, Philippines -- Former president Joseph Estrada on Tuesday vowed to fight attempts to seize his assets other than those specified by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court’s decision convicting him of plunder.

Estrada, in a statement in Filipino, said he was “ready to fight, I am ready to fight to the death.”

He said he had “sweated to get all those properties of mine,” including the Tanay rest house where he was detained through his six-year trial, which he said “I acquired before becoming mayor” of San Juan.

Estrada stressed he was not questioning the Sandiganbayan’s order to seize money in two bank accounts that it had declared ill-gotten and the so-called “Boracay mansion” in Quezon City.

In convicting Estrada on September 12, the Sandiganbayan ordered the forfeiture of P545.29 million and the in favor of government 5,192.88-square meter property in New Manila, Quezon City.

He was freed before he could serve his sentence of between 20 to 40 years after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pardoned him little more than a month after his conviction.

In Malacañang, acting Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera hoped Estrada "complies with the terms and conditions of the pardon” granted him by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

“It is something he subscribed and consented to by the fact that he signed the very document of the pardon," she said.

Thus far, Sandiganbayan sheriff Ed Urieta has succeeded in getting the commitment of Banco de Oro to hand over P200 million deposited in the name of the Erap (Estrada’s nickname) Muslim Youth Foundation, which the Sandiganbayan said was part of the kickbacks Estrada received from the illegal numbers game “jueteng.”

However, the P189-million commission Estrada received from the sale of shares in Belle Corp. that was deposited in an account he opened using the name Jose Velarde has still to be located.

Urieta said if they do not find the balance of the money ordered seized by the Sandiganbayan, they would go after Estrada’s other assets.

But Estrada noted that “under the Plunder Law, forfeiture refers only to 1) property used in the commission of a crime; 2) proceeds of the crime; and 3) property derived or traceable to the instrument of proceeds of the crime.”

“Let them get [the assets specified by the Sandiganbayan], anyway [former Ilocos Sur governor Luis] Chavit Singson admitted that he donated the P200 million to the Erap Muslim Youth Foundation and the Boracay Mansion I never claimed to own,” he said.

“They are harassing me too much…they jailed me for six years, stole my position, because of the plotting of a new people,” Estrada said.

He advised Urieta to wait for the Sandiganbayan to decide on a motion to quash that he had filed before moving against his other properties.

“He should not be so hasty, since I am ready to obey the law,” the former president said.