The MININT boasted this weekend of dismantling a currency trafficking network that operated with remittances from the United States.
LIMA, Peru – The Ministry of the Interior of the Cuban regime boasted this weekend about dismantling a currency trafficking network that operated with remittances from the United States.
The event is inserted in the middle of the Castro Government’s new offensive on the control of the informal currency market and its concern about the dollars that it cannot “capture” through its strategy of “partial dollarization of the economy.”
Yisnel Rivero Crespo, head of the Economic Crimes Department of the MININT Instruction Body, informed the state press on the “preparatory phase file 121/2025”, which allegedly revealed a structure directed from the United States by Cuban citizen Humberto Julio Mora Caballero.
The manager commented that Mora Caballero obtained foreign currency funds in North American territory and, “through a network of front men,” opened more than 30 bank accounts to move money and pay suppliers.
The MININT highlighted the establishment of an operational base in Camagüey, where a group of subordinates “weekly collected large sums of national currency in cash from forms of non-state management” that were then distributed as remittances to Cuban families.
In this regard, Rivero Crespo explained that between February and September 2025, the network moved more than 1,000 million Cuban pesos and around a quarter of a million US dollars.
Currently, more than a dozen of those involved are complying with precautionary measures, while the regime’s agencies report on the investigation “of four non-state actors linked to this network” with whom Mora Caballero would have maintained financial relations.
As characterizes the State’s information obscurantism, the official reports released omit essential data about the others involved, the victims and the institutional responsibility in these events.
The Cuban regime recognized the drop in remittances to the Island and its loss of control over the currencies that circulate within the country. In this regard, Rivero Crespo warned of the execution of more operations, as well as the implementation of new measures for financial regulation and tax supervision.
“The country receives less than 10% of what it received before,” stated the leader, a fact that he attributed in the official speech to the US embargo and “to new criminal modalities that retain money outside the borders.”
The dictatorship regretted that the dollars do not reach their bank coffers despite the fact that people receive in Cuba the equivalent of what their loved ones send them in national currency.
Furthermore, the MININT denounced that hard currency remains “abroad to pay for imports or fuel illicit schemes” and in that sense highlighted the role of figures such as the accused Humberto Julio Mora Caballero, a new nemesis of the Castro economy that the propaganda called “financiers.”
