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After two years of silence, when he was reported for sexual assault in ‘Gossip No Like’ , the show of Javier Ceriani and Elisa Beristain , and having been separated from Univision for this, Enrique Albis was arrested this morning after appearing before the judge .
As we told you a few days ago, when he had his first hearing on the allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault , the former producer of ‘El Gordo y la Flaca’ was presented this Tomorrow, via zoom, to have the charges read for the most serious of all the lawsuits: a May crime, a felony, is d file a criminal case .
Albis knew, through his lawyers, that today he would be detained , not as happened with the first complaints two years ago, where he only received the charges but I never step in jail. Now he is spending the night in a cell and tomorrow, Tuesday, he should appear again in front of the judge to have the charges read and the bond confirmed.
Yes, Albis has already set a bond of 17 thousand dollars , money that, people close to him, the few that remain, say that he does not have, in fact, he has been without work almost all that time, because added to the complaints, the public sentence, the pandemic did not help him find anything to cope with.
On the other hand, while he is looking for how to pay bail and presents in court, still has three more cases to face . In one of them the hearing will be next week, although, as was said in the first hearing, the intention of the prosecution that investigated and gave this criminal turn to the facts, such as public defense, are trying to unify the cases into one , to expedite what could take years to resolve.
How did all this nightmare start for the until now 16 complainants and for Albis himself?
Started in August of 2019, when Javier Ceriani and Elisa Beristain made the first complaint by presenting overwhelming evidence: a recording where Albis was heard asking an actress , who was going to a casting to work, supposedly, for ‘El Gordo y la Flaca’, to have sex … After so much insistence, the woman felt intimacy in showing her butt, and in the recording you can hear how the producer masturbates.
Faced with this complaint Univision fired Albis and began an investigation where he invited all the chain’s employees to report if they had been harassed or if they knew of any harassment.
Although at the time Albis victims made a settlement with Univision, and signed n a confidentiality contract in exchange for a certain sum of money , all that was shattered, when after an investigation by The Miami Herald, the prosecution decided to return to the issue, change from civil to criminal and two of the cases had a change of cover and accusation .
In one you must face two serious crimes of sexual assault and two minor offenses of aggression . In the second case, he was formally charged with felony illegal detention, one minor for robbery by sudden outburst and another for injuries.
SEE HOW THE CHARGES WERE READ TO ALBIS BEFORE BEING ARRESTED: