Los Angeles-based paralegal Maria de Leon admitted to conspiring with embattled preacher Apollo Quiboloy’s subordinates to smuggle church workers into the United States including via sham marriages, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. READ:
MANILA, Philippines – Los Angeles-based paralegal Maria de Leon admitted to conspiring with embattled preacher Apollo Quiboloy’s subordinates to smuggle church workers into the United States including via sham marriages, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday, April 1.
De Leon admitted to submitting fraudulent “Petitions for Alien Relative” and related paperwork on behalf of KOJC members, fully aware that these marriages were arranged for the purpose of securing an approval for a spouse to immigrate to the US.for a labor trafficking scheme that used fraudulently obtained visas to bring KOJC members to the US. Once in America, they were “forced” to solicit donations for a bogus charity called the Children’s Joy Foundation , based in Glendale, California.
Apart from labor trafficking, the same November 2021 indictment charged Quiboloy, De Leon, and seven others over an alleged sex trafficking scheme thatthe “Appointed Son of God,” under threats of “eternal damnation.”
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