The
26-year-old American has been stuck in the Southeast Asian nation for
two days after a politically influential sect filed a fraud complaint,
saying it is owed a million-dollar-plus refund after he skipped a
concert last year.
"Please,
please, let us leave, please," Brown said in a video posted on his
official Instagram account, showing him on his knees inside what
appeared to be his hotel room. The post was later taken down.
He ended the plea with his signature backflip.
He also
appeared to send a thinly veiled distress signal to US President Barack
Obama as he captioned the post: "OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!"
In two
subsequent Twitter posts Brown said: "This is a very serious situation
and someone needs to be held accountable for mixing my name up in all
this. I've done nothing wrong!!!"
He
added: "I have nothing to do with anything going on right now. I came
back to Manila to do a make-up show for New Years. I did the show three
days ago."
Brown performed to a packed crowd at a Manila arena on Tuesday.
But he
failed to show up on December 31 last year for a concert sponsored by
the Christian group Iglesia ni Cristo at its mammoth 55,000-seater
indoor stadium on Manila's outskirts.
He has reportedly said he lost his passport at the time so he could not travel.
The
justice department barred him from leaving Wednesday unless he produces a
government document certifying he has no legal obligations in the
country.
The
immigration bureau has said Brown has not applied for such a document,
and the justice department on Thursday appointed a state prosecutor to
prepare the filing of fraud charges against him.
- AFP
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