Evangelist Apollo Quiboloy of Kingdom of Jesus Christ. (GRIG MONTEGRANDE)
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy was not detained in the United States (US) contrary to earlier reports, his spokesperson clarified on Friday.
“I granted interviews to clarify everything that he was not detained nor was he imprisoned nor was he jailed. He was not. He was not also deported,” lawyer Israelito Torreon, Quiboloy’s spokesperson, said in an interview over Radyo Inquirer 990AM.
A HawaiiNewsNow. com report on Thursday said that US authorities found $350,000 in cash as well as gun parts inside the private jet of Quiboloy at the Honolulu Airport.
Torreon said Quiboloy was not arrested nor detained and only a “clarification” was made with the pastor.
“My source is Pastor Apollo Quiboloy and he told me that there was only a clarification and the fact that he was able to clarify everything,” he said.
The lawyer said Quiboloy was able to leave Hawaii after he was able to clarify everything.
“He was allowed to leave United States and he is already here in the Philippines that I know because Pastor Quiboloy told me that,” he said.
Quiboloy, he said, arrived in Manila via a commercial flight at 6:35 p.m. on Thursday.
“The fact that he is in the Philippines as early as 6:35 last night proves that there was no crime that he committed in US soil. So he is here already in the country,” he said.
He said Quiboloy was innocent from the accusations that he violated US laws.
“The fact that there is only a very short span of time that separates the alleged holding or detention to the time that he arrived here in the Philippines speaks volumes of the Pastor’s innocence of the insinuations that he committed a crime or that he violated any US laws,” he said.
“The fact that he is here in the Philippines proves that he was not charged, that there was no case filed against him, that he was not deported,” he added. /kga