(9 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manila, Philippines – 9 September 2024
1. Fugitive preacher Apollo Quiboloy entering room
2. Quiboloy (Right) with 4 other co-accused being presented to media
3. Quiboloy wearing black mask and glasses exiting room
4. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog): Benhur Abalos, Philippines Secretary of the Interior and Local government
“Under our law, you need to serve your case in the Philippines first, if you have a case here. This is our sovereignty, this is our law, he is a Filipino citizen, so he should answer first to the Philippines, to all his sins here to his fellow Filipinos and then after that you go by the laws of extradition.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Davao city, Philippines – 23 May 2016
5. STILL: Apollo Quiboloy appearing on his talk show
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manila, Philippines – 9 September 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog): Benhur Abalos, Philippines Secretary of the Interior and Local government
(Reporter asking “Do the Duterte’s have a part in obstructing justice?)
“For me it is simple, we should look at the people who are involved on this ground on whatever the police have regarding this matter. (Reporter asking “but should they (Duterte’s) be included?) No, no it’s up for the police to determine.”
7. Abalos entering vehicle
STORYLINE:
A Filipino preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking in the Philippines and similar charges in the United States surrendered Sunday to authorities in his religious complex in the south and was flown to Manila where he was put in police detention, officials said.
Apollo Quiboloy and four other co-accused surrendered in the vast religious headquarters of their group, called the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, in Davao city after the police gave a 24-hour ultimatum for them to give up, police said.
Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos earlier said Quiboloy was caught by authorities.
Quiboloy and his co-accused were flown on a Philippine air force C-130 plane to the capital Sunday night and locked up in a heavily guarded detention center at the national police headquarters, where their mugshots and fingerprints were taken, police spokesperson Colonel Jean Fajardo said in a news briefing.
Quiboloy went into hiding earlier this year after a Philippine court ordered his arrest and several others on allegations of suspicion of child and sexual abuse and human trafficking, Fajarto said.
The Philippine Senate separately ordered Quiboloy’s arrest for refusing to appear in public committee hearings that were looking into criminal allegations against him.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had urged Quiboloy to surrender and assured him of fair treatment by authorities.
The preacher and his lawyer denied the allegations against him, saying they were fabricated by critics and former members who were removed from the religious group.
In 2021, United States federal prosecutors announced the indictment of Quiboloy for allegedly having sex with women and underage girls who faced threats of abuse and “eternal damnation” unless they catered to the self-proclaimed “son of God.”
Quiboloy and two of his top administrators were among nine people named in a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury and unsealed in November 2021.
It contained a raft of charges, including conspiracy, sex trafficking of children, sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, marriage fraud, money laundering, cash smuggling and visa fraud.
The U.S. Embassy in Manila referred requests for comments to Philippine authorities.
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