So far, official information does not specify how many workers were detained.
MIAMI, United States. – Several workers at a cemetery in the province of Camaguey ―presumably the general cemetery of the city of Camagüey― were detained by the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), accused of participating in the illegal sale of vault capacities for burials, according to official information disclosed by the authorities of the Cuban regime.
The arrest occurred this Tuesday, November 18, in a note from the Cuban News Agency (ACN)which attributes the data to reports published by the PNR itself on its official Facebook profile Heroes in blue in Cuba.
“According to official information, those involved obtained illegitimate economic benefits through these practices, which affect the transparency and dignity of funeral services,” indicates the ACN.
The same note adds that the case is still under investigation and that those arrested will be taken to court. “The competent authorities reported that investigations are being carried out to clarify the facts and determine responsibilities, and the detainees will be brought before the courts, where the procedural guarantees and rights established in the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba will be guaranteed,” according to ACN.
So far, official information does not specify how many cemetery workers were detained, which necropolis in the province is at the center of the case, or the economic scope of the operations described as “illegal sale of vault capacities for burials.” Nor are the specific criminal figures that the Prosecutor’s Office could accuse the suspects detailed.
The independent newspaper 14ymediowhich resumed and expanded the information from the same police reports, pointed out that the publication of the case provoked new complaints from residents in Camagüey about irregular charges in the funeral sector, among them the testimony of a person who stated that a gravedigger had asked him for 10,000 pesos for an individual grave and another who claimed that up to 5,000 dollars were required to prioritize certain funeral transfers.
