Filipino televangelist pleads not guilty to human trafficking charges

(13 Sep 2024)
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Manila, Phillippines - 13 September 2024
1. Pan of arrested preacher Apollo Quiboloy, with face covered, wearing bullet proof vest and helmet exiting vehicle surrounded by police entering regional trial court building
2. Trial court of Pasig sign, pan down to police and journalist outside building
3. Police securing area
4. Mid of heavily armed police securing area
5. Various of arrested preacher, wearing black mask and helmet, exiting court building escorted by police

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ARCHIVE: Davao city, Phillippines - 23 May 2016
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6. Quiboloy appears on his talk show
STORYLINE:
A Philippine televangelist, who calls himself the “anointed son of God” and once claimed to have stopped an earthquake, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of human trafficking in a court arraignment that's the latest mark of his reversal of fortune.

The arrested preacher, Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, and four of his co-accused were brought under heavy security to the regional trial court in Pasig city in metropolitan Manila and would later be transported to another court to be arraigned in a separate non-bailable case of child sexual abuse.

His lawyer said Quiboloy entered a not guilty plea because he's innocent of the charges.

Quiboloy, the 74-year-old preacher and founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ group, faces similar charges in the United States, where he has been included on the FBI’s most-wanted list.

The United States was expected to request the extradition of Quiboloy and his co-accused at some point, but President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said they have to first face justice in the Philippines. Quiboloy surrendered in his vast religious complex in the south Sunday in an operation involving more than 2,000 police officers.

Quiboloy was one of the most influential religious leaders in the Philippines with many followers and was regarded a political kingmaker, who backed the equally controversial former President Rodrigo Duterte.

AP video shot by Gerard Carreon

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