Madrid Spain.- Cuban activist Salomé García Bacallao He received response from the office of the Florida attorney general, Ashley Moody, to her request to open an investigation into the online store Supermarket23 registered in Miami that sells Cuban products at very high prices that cannot be purchased in physical stores in the country.
In the acknowledgment of receipt, García Bacallao was thanked for the complaint and it is ensured that the information was shared with the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General’s Office.
Yesterday I received a response from the Florida Attorney General’s office regarding my inquiry regarding the possible fraudulent operations of companies such as Supermarket23. I communicated the information published by @CubaAdn @GeletMartinez @CubanetNews @padroncueto @albertfonse11j. https://t.co/NWOKGIHWgV pic.twitter.com/9Tyx5Hop6y
– Salomé #MirenLasPrisionesDeCuba (@onceagainsalome) July 16, 2022
The document indicates that the fraudulent operations of Supermarket23 will be investigated.
At the beginning of the current month, the activist had presented your request so that possible illegalities and violations of the US embargo on Cuba by this company could be investigated.
In announcing the sending of his request, Bacallao invited Florida residents to do the same, “especially if Supermarket23 has ever failed to deliver products to Cuba, which is also frequent.”
Well, I filed a “general inquiry” with the Florida attorney general’s office. I invite Florida residents to do the same, especially if Supermarket23 has ever failed to deliver products to Cuba, which is also frequent.https://t.co/co28q6ACdu https://t.co/jZ3YaTgfSk pic.twitter.com/A0ERYyioOV
– Salomé #MirenLasPrisionesDeCuba (@onceagainsalome) July 6, 2022
In this online store it is possible to find more than 1,000 different products, from meats and ice cream to any item of hygiene, cleaning or medicine. What is not found in physical stores in Cuba, but that from abroad anyone with a Visa or Mastercard can buy and is distributed in all the provinces of the Island.
last may CubaNet published the investigationThe business of online stores: who is behind Supermarket23”where he exposed, as part of a government strategy called “border sale”, the close ties with the Havana regime of a network of foreign companies.
According to this investigation, Supermarket23, despite being presented as a foreign company not linked to the regime, since it is registered in Canada and the United States, is an initiative promoted by the Cuban state-owned company Alcona, an entity that is part of the group state business Flora and Fauna, directed by the Commander of the Revolution Guillermo García Frías.
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