A Filipino preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking in the Philippines and similar charges in the United States surrendered Sunday to authorities in his religious complex in the south and was flown to Manila where he was put in police detention, officials said.
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00:00Under our law, you have to serve your case first in the Philippines.
00:26If you have a case here, here, this is our sovereignty.
00:29This is our law.
00:30He's a Filipino citizen.
00:31So you have to answer him in the Philippines, in his cells, to his fellow Filipinos.
00:36And then after that, you go by the laws of extradition.
00:43For me, it's very simple.
00:46We have to look at the people involved here on this ground, whatever the police hold
00:51about this.
00:54It's up for the police to determine.
00:59Thank you very much.