Singer Chris Brown was barred by authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from leaving the Philippines, a day after his concert at the Mall of Asia Arena on Tuesday evening, Philippine time, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila de Lima confirmed to reporters that she had issued a lookout bulletin order (LBO) against the singer.
The LBO stemmed from a letter written by Glicerio Santos IV, chief legal counsel of Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) and chief operating officer of the Maligaya Development Corp. (MDC) requesting assistance from the Department of Justice "for the successful prosecution of the criminal complaint which MDC is lodging," according to GMA News Online.
The MDC wanted Brown charged with estafa (a criminal offense wherein a person defrauds another by the following means by abuse of confidence, deceit and fraudulent means) over his failure to appear in the INC's New Year's Eve concert last year at the Philippine Arena.
Brown's private plane, a Gulfstream G450 aircraft, was originally set to depart at 1 p.m. Philippine time on Wednesday from a private hangar near Terminal 4 in NAIA.
When he was stopped by authorities, the immigration and Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines advised Brown to get a clearance from the DOJ. The singer is hoping he will be able to leave the country before the end of day, according ABS-CBN News.
