Havana Cuba. – The Government of the capital continued its hunt this weekend against resellers and businesses that sell food to the population, leaving a balance of fines, confiscations, arrests and several employees under precautionary measures awaiting the results of the investigations. .
In the El Entronque store, in the town of Managua, in Arroyo Naranjo, on Saturday night a police operation confiscated 295 tubes of hash that were seized inside a private car parked at the entrance to the cargo area of the trade, as well as more than 50,000 pesos.
According to the information, offered under conditions of anonymity by a member of the local Police, the driver of the vehicle, two storekeepers and four employees were arrested in the operation, who hours later were released with a precautionary measure and until the investigation clarifies their participation. in fact.
The action, explained the law enforcement officer, was organized by the Technical Investigation Department (DTI) based on a complaint made at the end of October at the Office of Attention to the Population of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT)which pointed to store employees, government personnel and members of the Police in collusion with corruption.
“A consumer and neighbor of the store delivered ‘up there’ a few photos that she took of carts carrying chicken and mincemeat. Workers and other people were also seen in the same function, many of them people from us who were dedicated to taking things from the workers,” said the anonymous source, who chose to protect the identity of the aforementioned woman.
At the beginning of the month, he expanded, the complaint caused the members of the Managua police sector to be relocated to the El Capri municipal station, as a sanction. The movement caused 17 law enforcement officers to request the removal of the repressive body.
In the early hours of Sunday, a provincial group from the Comprehensive Supervision and Control Directorate (DISC) audited the CUPET of Managua by surprise, where one of the four establishments that distribute basic necessities in that popular council is located.
The place remained closed until after 10:00 in the morning, when it opened the doors to the first people who were waiting in line to buy a monthly module of two bottles of oil and a package of chicken.
“They didn’t take anything, because if they didn’t leave this closed too and I don’t know what I would have done to eat for the days this mess lasted,” said Damián Llerena Ríos, an elderly person who claimed to have only a few pounds of rice to cook in the night.
According to the report of several neighbors, on Monday in an operation against a house located in the Frank País neighborhood, also in the Managua popular council, two sacks of rice, 163 tubes of mincemeat, 70 packages of sausages and 12 packages of chicken.
“They came straight to the house; they even knew what things were there and where they were kept. It is true that [los revendedores] They sell expensive, but everything is expensive and in a certain way they are the ones who solve the problem for the people because there is never anything in the store,” said Abel Pérez Báez, one of the witnesses to the event.
Editor’s note: This note does not include images of the police operation carried out in Managua due to the risk involved for the reporter to record or photograph PNR agents in action.
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