Nacho Cano filed a complaint for blackmail and revelation of secrets against Malinche’s intern who denounced him for violating the rights of his workers. The producer of the musical provides as evidence some WhatsApp messages where Lesly asks him to deposit 6,000 euros because of his mother Mexicoa letter of recommendation to be able to work on other shows in Spain and a hotel stay, with meals included, until January 15.
According to the complaint that EL ESPAÑOL had access to, the musician’s legal representative considers that the intern “tried to blackmail” Nacho Cano “to comply with his demands or “Otherwise, he and the rest of his 17 Mexican scholarship students were going to be seriously injured.”
“My lawyer says this request will cost less than a trial,” The intern threatens them in WhatsApp messages. If they agreed, She promised to “take all her things out of the hostel once the payment is settled and that’s it, they won’t hear from me again.” I always sign whatever they ask me to, as long as it doesn’t harm my career or myself and that’s it, they don’t hear from me again. I guarantee it,” he wrote in the aforementioned WhatsApp conversation.
The intern exchanged these messages after the They urged him to give up the scholarship because he had failed the assessment, “because he was a very conflictual person, who had broken the rules of behavior and who did not fit in with the scholarship program.”
Among the conditions of the scholarship project, according to the complainant, it was established that every three months from the arrival in Madrid, the management had the power to invite students to abandon the scholarship for not having achieved the objectives of “comradeship, attitude and dedication.” If these objectives are not met, “they should return to Mexico.”
According to the complaint, Lesly was not “the only invitee” to abandon the scholarship because “they have not reached the required technical level”, but there was a second student, to whom the management “He paid the cost of their return to Mexico.”
But Lesly “refused to leave Spain, he lost his return ticket and from that moment on “A perfectly orchestrated operation begins to extort and blackmail Nacho Cano,” retrieve the complaint.
Campaign against Nacho Cano
Regarding the actions taken by the accused before the police, the Madrid prosecutor’s office and the media, Nacho Cano’s lawyer explains in the complaint how, following his client’s inability to respond to the “blackmail” “the execution of a campaign of attack, discrediting and harassment begins” against Cano and the Malinche leadership.
Regarding the crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets, Cano’s lawyer recalls the documents that the accused signed on December 3, 2023 for the transfer of rights, the authorization of the right to the image and a “confidentiality agreement for an indefinite period.”
“It is stated and signed that the defendant was fully aware that failure to comply with this agreement gives rise to the offense of discovery and disclosure of secrets,” states the complaint, in which it is also announced, the presentation of an “accounting” expert report in order to prove the damage caused by the defendant “not only to Nacho Cano, to the musical Malinche and to the 17 scholarship students who suffered from the actions of their former partner.”
