The case is similar to another reported in August.
Miami, United States. – A woman from Camagüey denounced that strangers demanded $ 5,000 to return a permanent residence (Green Card) from the US and a Cuban passport to his granddaughter, who lives in that country and whose documents would have been stolen upon his arrival in Cuba, at the “Ignacio Agramonte” International Airport.
The woman, identified as Aracelis Gálvez Delgado, assured Martí News that he already went to the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) and the United States Embassy in Havana.
Gálvez Delgado also explained to that media that his granddaughter, Glenda de la Caridad Torres, traveled for eight days to visit a sick great -grandfather and that the documents disappeared after the arrival in Camagüey: “The girl came just for eight days, because she studies in the United States. When we got home and prepared her things for the return, we realized that her residence and the passport had disappeared.”
Gálvez added that the young woman “remembers putting them in her wallet at Camagüey airport. There someone helped us with the bags and we believe it was at that time.”
The first public alert spread on Facebook, when the user identified as Yaileny Robaina asked for help in the Facebook group Revolico Camagüey 2025 To locate lost documents.
Shortly after, they circulated in other groups of sale screenshots with the photo of the Green Card and the request for money to return it. One of the comments in Yaileny Robaina’s publication, on behalf of Yarelys Roselló Pérez, Pray: “Look at this barbarity I found now.” It also includes the screenshot of the publication of an anonymous participant in the Facebook group Revolico Las Tunas. !!! in which 5,000 dollars are required to return the residence and a contact number is offered.
According to comments cited by Martí Newsthe associated telephone number would be involved in previous scam attempts.
The family said he tried to communicate with the phone, but the call was interrupted and were referred to an email that was false. “We already went to the police and now we are waiting in the first unit of the PNR. They also told us to go to the US embassy so that the girl can manage a travel document. She is very depressed because she came just to help me and met this situation, in addition to heat and blackouts,” Gálvez told Gálvez to Martí News.
The case is similar to Another reported in August: Cuban Leonardo Peña de la Cruz, permanent resident in the US Green Card on the island and demanded $ 4,000 to recover it. The young man chose not to pay and went to the American consulate. “They want to charge me 4,000 USD for recovering the residence. I had to come from Guantanamo to Havana to introduce myself at the United States Embassy, where they attended me very well and are helping me,” he told me Martí News.
The affected itself described how the robbery happened during a road journey: “I was on my way to my house. Already in the East, I stopped in a place to eat because the trip is more than 10 hours. When I got off a few minutes, I broke the glass of the car and stole the documents. Many people tell me that why I was up with that, but it is logical. I had just arrived from the trip, I had not yet arrived at my house.”
Peña de la Cruz recommended not yielding to extortion: “That is unusual, crazy. No one is going to pay that amount, unless it is very desperate. I kept calm, I didn’t even contact that person. My advice is that nobody lets you get extort.
As he said, he obtained the necessary documents to return to the US at the embassy of that country, in Havana. He also requested extreme precautions: “Do not leave anything in sight inside the vehicles, nor a cap. The situation is very bad and people are hot. For me and my family was a bitter experience, because one comes on vacation, happy, to see his own, and meets such a mishap. But, I repeat: do not pay a dollar, everything is resolved in the embassy.”
Lawyers consulted by Martí News They suggest not paying bailouts and denouncing the police to record. Immigration lawyer Ismael Labrador said: “With that report, the person can travel without physical residence. Upon arriving in the United States, the worst thing that can happen is that immigration is issued an I-193 Waiverwhich can leave for free or cost up to $ 685. After that, within the country, you can present form I-90 to replace the Green Card. “Labrador added:” The most important thing is that they contact the US authorities in our embassy. They are going to guide them and know what to do. ”
