The complainants against Evangelist Apollo Quiboloy said on Friday that the cases against him are not affected by the issue against former President Rodrigo Duterte.
“Para sa amin, hindi kasi ito political eh. This is a matter of ‘yung nag se-seek kami ng justice para sa aming private complainant,” Private Prosecutor Joahna Paula Domingo said.
“So it has nothing, it should have nothing to do with whatever it is, whatever issues na hinaharap ngayon na nakapalibot sa isyu ng dating president,” she added.
Duterte is currently detained in the International Criminal Court’s premises in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Domingo made the remark after the Pasig Regional Trial Court Branch 159 hearing.
Quiboloy is facing a non-bailable qualified human trafficking charge.
Domingo clarified that even if Quiboloy is a known ally of Duterte, they are still two separate entities.
“Kasi we maintain in the prosecution that Apollo Quiboloy is actually a criminal. And he’s a rapist, he’s a human trafficker, and I don’t think it has anything to do with the issue surrounding FPRRD,” she said.
She assured that their camp maintains that the evidence against the Evangelist is strong.