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Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy is still included in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s wanted list for alleged sex and human trafficking
Claim: KOJC leader Apollo Quiboloy has never been indicted for any crimes.
Rating: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: The X (formerly Twitter) post, uploaded on October 9, has 34,700 views, 301 likes, and 73 shares from an account with 964 followers.
The post stated: “Ifokritang Risa Hontiveros. Si Quiboloy, walang indictment o conviction sa kahit anong krimen.” (Risa Hontiveros is a hypocrite. Quiboloy does not face an indictment or conviction for any crime.)
The post was made a few days after Hontiveros criticized Quiboloy’s candidacy for senator in the upcoming 2025 Philippine elections, urging Filipinos to “not elect lawbreakers as lawmakers.”
The bottom line: Several courts in the US and the Philippines have indicted and subsequently charged Quiboloy for several cases.
Quiboloy is already in custody and on trial in separate courts in Quezon City and Pasig after a five-month-long manhunt. He has pleaded not guilty to the crime of trafficking as he finally faced a court on September 13.
The Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) charged Quiboloy and five others — Jackielyn Roy, Sylvia Cemañes, Cresente, Paulene, and Ingrid Canada — with trafficking, while the Quezon City RTC charged the doomsday preacher with child and sexual abuse.
On November 10, 2021, a US federal court in California indicted Quiboloy and five other KOJC leaders for “participating in a conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, as well as the sex trafficking of children.” (READ: TIMELINE: Saga of KOJC’s Apollo Quiboloy, from temporary detainment in Hawaii to Davao ‘surrender’)
As of writing, Quiboloy’s wanted poster is still posted on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” bulletin for the same charges.
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Not clear from charges: While one of the co-accused KOJC leaders has entered a plea deal with the US government over the sex trafficking charges, no reports mention charges being supposedly lifted against Quiboloy.
Quiboloy is currently detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center Facility in Camp Crame, waiting to be transferred to the New Quezon City Jail. (TIMELINE: Saga of KOJC’s Apollo Quiboloy, from temporary detainment in Hawaii to Davao ‘surrender’)
Rappler has already published several fact-checks debunking claims about the embattled KOJC leader in relation to controversies involving him:
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