Kingdom of Jesus Christ Pasto Apollo Quiboloy (File photograph from the Official X account of Apollo Quiboloy)
DAVAO CITY – “How might I settle for any bribe after I was not in Davao Metropolis (earlier than 2022)?” requested Lawyer Archie Albao, regional director of the Nationwide Bureau of Investigation (NBI) right here, on the declare by the previous member of the non secular sect Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) that he used to simply accept bribe from the beleaguered Pastor Apollo Quiboloy who remained elusive.
Arlene Stone, who’s now based mostly within the US, mentioned she was the one who personally handed out the envelope to the regional director earlier than she had gone to the US.
Stone, a former KOJC pastoral member and one of many complainants within the case in opposition to Quiboloy, issued the assertion after the NBI, headed by Albao, made one other failed try to arrest the Pastor on the KOJC compound alongside the Airport Street right here on August 9.
She demanded that Albao and all of the police assigned in Davao Metropolis ought to all be faraway from their posts as a result of they had been all protectors of Quiboloy and former President Rodrigo Duterte, Quiboloy’s shut buddy and ally.
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The NBI’s try to arrest the Pastor got here after Police Brig. Common Nicolas Torre III, director of the Police Regional Workplace 11, mentioned that the KOJC Compound, the place Quiboloy may very well be hiding, had an intricate net of underground tunnels that related it on to the Davao Worldwide Airport.
Albao mentioned it was not doable that he and Stone might have met as he was not in Davao Metropolis earlier than he was appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in October 2022 and that Stone had already fled to the US even earlier than his project right here.
Albao mentioned he labored in several NBI places of work in Pampanga, Bohol, Area 3, Area 8 and Area 2 earlier than he was tasked to take over the NBI Southern Mindanao Regional Workplace right here.
“I’ve nothing to fret about as a result of it’s not true,” mentioned Albao on Stone’s declare.
Quiboloy is needed for circumstances of kid abuse, sexual abuse and human trafficking circumstances filed in opposition to him and 5 different KOJC officers within the Davao and Pasig Metropolis courtroom by former KOJC members. He’s additionally wished by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) within the US for conspiracy to have interaction in intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud and coercion, intercourse trafficking of kids; intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud and coercion; conspiracy; bulk money smuggling.
NBI’s try on August 9 was the fourth try by authorities to arrest the fugitive Pastor, who continued to shun the legislation regardless of the P10 million reward for many who might give info that may result in his arrest.
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