A 78 year old man identified as Laureano Oubina, from Galicia in northwest Spain, has sued Netflix for infringing on the privacy of him and his wife in the television series ‘Cocaine Coast’

Oubina who was convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering, demanded the streaming platform to pay him €1.5 million for the ‘moral damage’ the series had caused.

According to the Times, the judge in the rule stated that although the show’s depiction of the crime kingpin was not ‘very different’ from reality, they did find that a sex scene between Oubiña and his wife in the first episode of the series was not justified.

The court therefore ordered Netflix to remove the scene, which sees a police raid interrupt the couple during an intimate moment, and pay Oubiña €15,000 for breaching his privacy.

Oubiña had initially tried to sue Netflix for €1.5 million for creating the show, which he said portrayed him as a violent cocaine trafficker.

The series, which is called Fariña in Spanish, is based on the rise of drug clans in Galicia in the 1980s and 1990s, with Oubiña being played by actor Carlos Blanco.

Oubiña’s lawyer, Jorge Paladino, said “The life of Mr Laureano Oubiña has worsened considerably since the broadcast of this series because he is portrayed as a person capable of taking the life of another, a violent, sexist, a cocaine trafficker, impotent, vicious, unfaithful, a bad father, a bad husband, a brute, foolish, vengeful, an abuser of women, ignorant and a mafioso.”

However, the court rejected the other complaints as it found the show had been ‘inspired by reality’ and Oubiña’s portrayal was not ‘very different’ from that which he and his ‘conduct’ had led the world to believe.

Likewise, earlier this month it was revealed that the only surviving son of jailed murderer and fraudster Alex Murdaugh is planning to sue Netflix and Warner Brothers over documentaries connecting him to the murder of his former classmate.