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US-Philippines extradition of Apollo Quiboloy

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    US requests extradition of Filipino church leader Apollo Carreon Quiboloy

  2. · date approximate Background

    Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in 2025 under an ICC warrant and detained in the Netherlands.

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    Apollo Carreon Quiboloy went into hiding in 2024 after a Philippine court ordered his arrest for child and sexual abuse and human trafficking.

    In 2024, Apollo Carreon Quiboloy went into hiding after a court in the Philippines ordered his arrest. The order was issued in relation to allegations of child and sexual abuse, as well as human trafficking.

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    US federal prosecutors indicted Apollo Carreon Quiboloy in 2021 for sex trafficking, fraud, and coercion.

    In 2021, US federal prosecutors announced an indictment against Apollo Carreon Quiboloy. According to reports, the charges involved allegedly having sex with women and underage girls under the threat of abuse and 'eternal damnation'.

    A superseding indictment was unsealed by a US federal grand jury in November 2021, naming Quiboloy and eight others. This indictment included charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking of children, sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, marriage fraud, money laundering, cash smuggling, and visa fraud. Following the 2021 indictment, Quiboloy was listed among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives.