The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) founder and pastor Apollo Carreon Quiboloy over alleged critical human rights abuse, amid the popularity of the International Anti-Corruption Day and Human Rights Day.
In a assertion, the US Department of Treasury stated Quiboloy was among the many over 40 people and entities that had been sanctioned as a consequence of their supposed connection to corruption or human rights abuse throughout 9 nations.
“For more than a decade, Apollo Carreon Quiboloy (Quiboloy) engaged in serious human rights abuse, including a pattern of systemic and pervasive rape of girls as young as 11 years old, as well as other physical abuse,” the OFAC stated.
It talked about a federal indictment in 2021 that alleged Quiboloy was concerned in intercourse trafficking “pastorals,” or younger ladies within the KOJC chosen to work as private assistants for the pastor.
According to the indictment, the pastorals had been directed to have “night duty,” requiring them to have sexual activity with Quiboloy on a decided schedule. Quiboloy allegedly saved pastorals in varied nations, together with the Philippines and the United States.
“Quiboloy exploited his role within the KOJC to rape his victims and subject them to other physical abuse, describing these acts as sacrifices required by the Bible and by God for the victims’ salvation. The pastorals, who were mostly minors when initially abused by Quiboloy, were told by him to ‘offer your body as a living sacrifice,'” the OFAC stated.
The OFAC cited a report of a feminine who supposedly was pressured to have intercourse with Quiboloy, not less than as soon as every week even when she was a minor and in each nation they visited. She stated she misplaced rely of the variety of instances the act occurred.
The OFAC additionally alleged Quiboloy had subjected pastorals and different KOJC members to different types of bodily abuse, together with personally beating the victims and sending them to “Upper Six,” a walled compound used solely for punishment.
“Quiboloy is designated pursuant to E.O. 13818 for being a foreign person who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse. As noted above, Quiboloy was indicted in November 2021. Quiboloy is currently on the FBI’s Wanted List,” the OFAC stated.
GMA News Online has reached out to Quiboloy’s camp for remark, however Quiboloy’s authorized counsel Atty. Ferdinand Topacio stated they are going to name for a press convention on the acceptable time. —with a report from Ted Cordero/KG, GMA Integrated News
