Dominion of Melchizedek - Pearlasia Gamboa

Pearlasia Gamboa

Pearlasia Gamboa was the first president of the Dominion of Melchizedek. She is a Filipina-American business woman with numerous aliases who has been involved in controversial international banking, investment, and financial development transactions, including alleged bank fraud and securities fraud, from 1990 through 2009. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed against Gamboa in 2009 to stop her from selling securities of any kind again, and to reimburse victims of her fraudulent activities by which she enriched herself, calling her claimed Philippine gold mines and companies “empty shells”. According to a United States law enforcement official, her “so-called ‘banks’ are involved in serious fraud, and we are watching them close.”

Gamboa’s method of operation is to claim that she is highly religious (a “facade of religious respectability”), to pretend to have wealth, to create associations with international fame, to use numerous variations of her names and aliases, and to pretend to own physical companies around the world, such as gold mines, biodiesel companies, and banks, which are actually only empty shells. In 1995, after being investigated for fraud, Gamboa claimed a “religious freedom” by which she did not recognized the laws of the State of California, and she declared spiritual warfare on California’s Deputy Attorney General. In 2002, the address Gamboa listed with the SEC as an address for two of her businesses was the largest residence in Beverly Hills. Among Gambo's schemes was to defraud hundreds of Filipinos, Chinese, and Bengalis. In 2009, Gamboa’s name was listed as one of the authors of a local newspaper claiming that her son, Hazemach, won a gold medal in a national Karate competition. La Republica describes “a trap of luxury for the victims”.