Facebook profile People’s Force, an account linked to the Ministry of the Interior, details a police operation in the factory known as Chinchal de Tabaco, in the town of Báez, where the agents seized several bags of material, molds and tools for preparing cigarettes. . In addition, meat from cattle was confiscated, presumably coming from the theft of cattle from local peasants.
The publication assured that in that intervention, which took place in the Villa Clara municipality of Placetas, a person was arrested, who will be charged with the crimes of illegal economic activity and illegal possession of cattle meat.
With the increasingly acute shortage, the illegal trade often becomes the only place where you can find various products that are not available in stores, but at exorbitant prices.
In 2021, this newspaper reported how the cigarette produced illegally in a factory in the San Leopoldo neighborhood, in Havana, was gaining ground among consumers, at that time when the product vanished from stores and state cafeterias.
On one of these tours, the elements noticed how beef was being transported to a house in Placetas in broad daylight.
Then, the scarcity of raw materials was combined with an increase in the price of cigarettes due to the start of the Ordering Task, which led many businesses to keep the product in the hope of selling it later at a better value. But in the clandestine plant the rotating shifts did not stop, assured the administrator of the industry.
The claims of the population due to the increase in crime and violence have put pressure on the authorities, who have deployed more members of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) for routine surveillance. On one of these tours, the elements noticed how in broad daylight they were transporting beef to a house in Placetas.
The same Facebook profile reported on Monday the seizure of 133 pounds of beef that was being sold illegally. In addition, Maykel Vega was arrested, who, upon noticing the presence of the uniformed officers, tried to get rid of the product by throwing it from the sale of his house.
In the same municipality of Villa Clara, the Ministry of the Interior seized this week 100 bags of cement that were being transported on a tractor to Cabaiguán, Sancti Spíritus. Sources associated with the institution assured that two people were arrested at the scene, who are under investigation to determine the origin of the construction material.
In Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, the Police also confiscated, this Tuesday12 bags of coffee from the mountainous municipality of Manicaragua, in addition to two trucks loaded with food that were trying to cross into Cienfuegos, where the merchandise would be sold in the informal market.
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