The Apollo Quiboloy-led Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) church uses marriages between members abroad and those in the Philippines to maintain its global presence and increase its solicitation activities, former member Dindo Garcia Maquiling said. Maquiling, who hails from Canada and led KOJC’s activities there as executive director of Children’s Joy Foundation, said sham marriages are “widely practiced” among KOJC members in different parts of Canada and the world, and that he knows people who participated in such a scheme. “It’s from Toronto, Canada to Vancouver.
I need to say it's from the East Coast to the West Coast, from different cities also, including Alberta, Canada and some other areas by which they execute this kind of sham marriages. This has been a modus operandi of KOJC, not only in Canada, USA, Brazil, and even in the different parts of of the world, by which they want a worker from Davao to have a permanent status so that their existence there will continue to perpetuate,” Maquiling said via video call during Wednesday’s Senate investigation into alleged crimes by Quiboloy. The proceedings were led by Senator Risa Hontiveros, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Women, Children and Gender Equality.
Maquiling said he was also a "victim" of such a sham marriage. “I was asked to marry Maria Noralyn Barrientos because her visa is expiring. I got married to this person and then I filed a divorce after those few years.
That's the reason why my chil.