Police authorities of the Ministry of the Inside (Minint) in Santiago de Cuba, within the east of the island, reported the dismantling of a felony community that carried out a number of robberies within the Port of Santiago de Cuba and that diverted quite a few tons of meals.
In keeping with authorities media, a corruption community was dismantled in current days within the metropolis’s port, the place officers, staff, corporations and transporters who diverted fundamental basket merchandise to different non-public entities have been concerned.
Within the investigative course of, greater than 60 tons of meals have been recovered and 78 persons are at the moment being prosecuted. Among the many diverted meals have been: rice, beans, sugar and flour.
The authorities additionally detected felony conduct associated to embezzlement, falsification of paperwork and reception, crimes that may carry sentences of as much as 20 years in jail for these concerned. That is how the robberies occurred within the port of Santiago de Cuba, based on the NTV report.
“We now have a piece coverage, in circumstances of corruption, the place the Primary Basket is straight affected, of the merchandise that straight have an effect on the inhabitants, of zero tolerance,” the Mayor of the Minint, Ángel Luis Quiñones, mentioned on TV. .
Theft of merchandise from the Primary Basket within the port of Santiago
The authorities assured that it was unattainable for a single employee or an space, nothing extra, to be able to the thefts of Primary Basket merchandise within the port of Santiago.
“Given the variety of individuals (steckers, phytosanitary authorities, weighers, managers, transporters) concerned within the unloading course of, it’s unattainable for the chain to not be longer,” mentioned one of many Minint managers.
The prosecutors defined that the transporters paid as much as 18 thousand pesos for every ton that the weighers reported beneath what truly arrived on the port of Santiago, in order that they may preserve the distinction. They even offered vehicles of meals with out submitting the invoices to port management.
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