QC court orders Quiboloy’s transfer to city jail

REAL STORY. Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy (center) is presented to the media during a briefing led by Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. (left, seated) at Camp Crame in Quezon City on Monday (Sept. 9, 2024). Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III (right), Police Regional Office-Davao chief, said the evangelist was forced to surrender after he and his cohorts were cornered in one of the buildings inside the 30-hectare compound. (PNA photo by Joan Bondoc)

By Benjamin Pulta, Philippine News Agency

MANILA – The Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) trying the cases against religious leader Apollo C. Quiboloy and his co-accused has ordered their “immediate” transfer from the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Center in Camp Crame to the Quezon City Jail.

In an order dated Sept. 9, Judge Noel L. Parel of the RTC Branch 106, ruled that Quiboloy and co-accused Cresente Canada be committed to the New Quezon City Jail in Payatas Road, Bagong Silangan.

The three other female co-accused — Jackielyn W. Roy, Ingrid C. Canada, and Sylvia Cemañes – were ordered transferred to the QC Jail- Female Dormitory in Camp Karingal.

The order also set the arraignment of the five accused on Sept. 13.

The five were apprehended on Sept. 8 at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) compound in Davao City.

Quiboloy has also been indicted by a United States federal grand jury for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion and sex trafficking of children; conspiracy; and bulk cash smuggling.