Miami, United States. – Matanzas authorities reported last week the detection and neutralization of an alleged illicit marketing network of screws and other parts stolen from the Jovellanos photovoltaic solar park, which is built in the Colosseum Popular Council.
According to a report transmitted in the issuance of National Television News (NTV) On Saturday, February 8, the fact was discovered by the “organs of confrontation with crimes, corruption and behaviors of social indiscipline.”
“They have occupied an equis amount of these screws and has stopped, to some extent, the sale at illegal marketing points,” said the largest Yadira Prieto Vega, head of instruction of the Jovellanos municipality. However, he admitted that “there are still many other points to be located.”
The television report stressed that the identification of stolen materials was possible thanks to the recognition of Park specialists, who confirmed that “these elements provide security to photovoltaic structures” and that “they have no commercialization for any other way.”
The engineer Daniel Rivas Ramos, technical director of the Jovellanos Photovoltaic Park, explained: “If we did not have these screws, we could not fix the panels. That is, we could not put them on the table to be able to guarantee the safety of this panel here in the park. ”
He NTV He stressed that the investigation in progress seeks to clarify “how the products were stolen from the work, who are responsible for the fact and responsibility of the citizens in charge of commercialization.” According to the report, the Cuban Criminal Code includes crimes such as sabotage, with severe sanctions for those who threaten the National Electroenergetic System (SEN).
“We still do not have all the investigation exhausted, but however, the Criminal Code establishes crimes such as the crime of sabotage that has to do with (…) the national electroenergetic system [y] which establishes severe sanctions for those commissors of these facts. We also have other criminal types in the Criminal Code, which have to do fundamentally with crimes against the economy, ”he told NTV Iliac Castellanos Chávez, Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Criminal Processes of the Attorney General’s Office in Matanzas.
According to official figures, the photovoltaic park under construction has an import component valued at 16 million dollars, in addition to an investment in national currency of 1,000 million pesos for its civil infrastructure.
After knowing the robbery, the Electric Union (UNE) He announced measures to guarantee the availability of parts and screws and avoid delays in investment. “Our corporate purpose is the people and facing these types of crimes, we are giving an answer to the people,” said interviewed managers.
The report also included testimonies of workers of the work, who condemned the facts. “Those who commit these crimes are threatening the development of electricity in the country,” said one of them. Another worker said that “if the revolution spends money on doing this type of work and unscrupulous people, they subtract things that belong to the entire people, this must be repudiated.”
