A Filipino preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking in the Philippines and similar charges in the United States has been captured. The Philippine interior secretary announced the arrest of Apollo Quiboloy in a brief statement on his Facebook account but did not provide other details.
FILE - Apollo Quiboloy appears on his talk show on May 23, 2016, in Davao City, southern Philippines . in a brief statement on his Facebook account but did not provide other details. Philippine police chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil confirmed Quiboloy’s arrest also without elaborating.
Quiboloy went into hiding after a Philippine court ordered his arrest and several others on suspicion of child and sexual abuse. The Philippine Senate has separately ordered Quiboloy’s arrest for refusing to appear in committee hearings that were looking into criminal allegations against him. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has urged Quiboloy to surrender and assured him of fair treatment by authorities.
The preacher and his lawyer have 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.”The New Jersey developer convicted with Bob Menendez pleads guilty to bank fraudQuiboloy 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.
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