Havana/The high ones condemnations to managers From the agricultural supply company of Sancti Spíritus for corruption, which the official press reported this week, they have generated unusual reactions among Cubans who have read the news. Although the majority qualifies the officials of “predators” or “thieves”, several people close to the accused have come out in their defense ensuring that they are at least innocent.
The most striking comment was published on Facebook of 14ymedio For whom she identified as the daughter of the state director – initials DS–, who charged with the highest sentence, 20 years in prison. “Everyone who knows the case knows well what I am talking about, she is my mother, a director who, like every human being, has the right to get sick, and happened to him, became ill of reactive hepatitis which made it impossible for four months to exercise the position,” he says.
During that time, “sales were made in the company behind them,” he says in reference to the marketing of the state’s products with a self -employed worker who, according to EscambrayIt turned out to be a scammer. According to the local newspaper, the man appeared “under the image disguised as a representative of an alleged local development project” and, after carrying out one, but several purchases to the company, he left the country without paying. The contract, he adds, demanded that the payment be made “at the moment.”
In addition to being sick, his daughter values, the fact that the company was scammed 94 million pesos is an element in favor of his mother and the other defendants. “They were judged by embezzlement without having taken any money, they only sold to a guy who never paid and left the country. Now I wonder: is it ethical that a human being thus demoralizes without knowing well what happened?”
He also said that the director’s family “will appeal and get to where you have to arrive so that the true truth is recognized”
He also said that the director’s family “will appeal and get to where you have to arrive so that the true truth is recognized.”
At the foot of the publication of the note of Escambray In social networks, the woman rebuked several of the users who asked for more severe punishments or insulted the court leaders. “It is easy to say, ma’am, without truly knowing what happened. Read well to speak. No one took anything, they were cheated by a guy who bought all the merchandise and then left the country without paying,” he defended.
Other Internet users, apparently close to the case, also supported several of women’s publications. “I am witnessing her illness, as I am also a witness of the great woman who is and will continue to be. Many years defending the revolution. Now, in my view, they have committed great injustice. Everyone knows what happened, many know reality, only that there are wars that you will never win it or be right. To good understanding, with few words enough,” one of them predicted.
Another added on his own Facebook page: “I would have to add a lot, but I limit myself to a fact: a good friend of the times of the vocational of Santa Clara is prey, right now, for embezzlement, corruption and I do not know how many more charges. They ask for 20 years. But those who have us stealing and inventing, to live in that hooded country, we surrender to them and let them continue to continue to continue fatness. For fear, indolence, apathy … who knows? ”I criticized.
In response to the promise of the daughter of bringing the case to the last consequences, another acquaintance added: “That will be, the truth comes out because it comes out and then, to bite the tongue and swallow poison. Enough already of so much circus, that person has a family.”
The director of the company was tried with four other high positions on August 22 and 23 by the Criminal Chamber of the Provincial Court
The director of the company was tried with four other high positions on August 22 and 23 by the Criminal Chamber of the Provincial Court. Although his sentence was the hardest, the rest also imposed high penalties: the director of the Base Business Unit (EU) Marketing and Services of the Company, sentenced to 18 years in prison; the commercial director, 16 years; The legal advisor, 10 years, and the previous general director, who held the position in 2023, two years and six months of deprivation of liberty, “subsidized by correctional work with international internment.”
In addition to the scam, they were also accused of “breach of the duty to preserve goods in economic entities.” According to Escambraytwice the fridge of meat products, destined for “internal food”, broke, causing “the level of cold necessary for the conservation of food stored there” was not reached. ”
The managers, “despite the knowledge of the situation, did not implement effective actions” to save meat products, which caused a loss of more than three million pesos, finishes. On this crime, the director’s daughter did not expose any argument.
Whether it is created in the state or family version – incomplete both – many aspects are left to clarify. Who authorized the sale to a private “false”?; Why didn’t your identity verify? And, ultimately, where were those responsible for ensuring and auditing the goods of the company?
