Cops, Senate staff search Quiboloy properties in Davao
Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy (PHOTO: X/APOLLO C. QUIBOLOY)
MANILA, Philippines — The local police and personnel from the Senate’s Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) on Wednesday morning searched the properties of Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) founder Apollo Quiboloy in Davao City
Police Regional Office (PRO) 11 chief Brigadier General Alden Delvo said they checked three of Quiboloy’s properties in hopes of serving the arrest order against him.
“At 9:26 a.m. of the same date (April 10), the said contempt warrant was received by Atty. Israelito P. Torreon, legal counsel of Pastor Quiboloy at Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound, Phil-Japan Friendship Highway, Bajada Flyover, Davao City,” Delvo said in a statement sent to INQUIRER.net.
Aside from visiting the KJC compound, the Davao police chief said their team also went to Prayer Mountain in Barangay Tamayong, Calinan District.
Article continues after this advertisementThey, however, were only met by Quiboloy’s legal counsel, Atty. Kathleen Kaye M. Laurente, who again received the contempt warrant for him.
Article continues after this advertisementThey also checked the Glory Mountain along Purok 6, Barangay Tamayong, around 11 a.m. but failed to locate the religious leader.
On Tuesday, PRO 11 said that OSAA members arrived in Davao, after it sought the assistance of the Philippine National Police in serving the arrest order of Quiboloy for his continued absence on the upper chamber’s probe of his alleged crimes.
The arrest order was signed by Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and was issued by Senator Risa Hontiveros, chairperson of the Senate committee on women, children, family relations, and gender equality.
Last January 23, the Senate started its inquiry after former members of the KJC claimed to have witnessed instances of sexual abuse within the organization.
Quiboloy was declared a fugitive by authorities days after arrest warrants against him were issued by the Davao Regional Trial Court for violating Republic Act 7610 or the Anti-Child Abuse Law, specifically the provision on sexual abuse of minors and maltreatment.
