Miami.- After a fiscal review by the National Office of Tax Administration of Matanzas, it was determined that one of the most powerful and known MSMEs in the province would not have paid the required taxes. D’Soto Surl, administered by the family of the well -known Cuban athlete Javier Sotomayor Sanabrianow has a debt to the state of almost nine million pesos.
In a Facebook publication (which was withdrawn), Dariel Sotomayor Rivera, brother of the world recordist, denounced his disagreement with the opinion that forces them to pay exactly eight million six hundred and thirty -two thousand eight hundred twenty twenty with eighty -eight cents for “the“ damage caused to public funds. ”
“The same public funds that were benefited by more than ten million with the payment of all taxes,” the young man wrote to support that they have not stopped paying their taxes.
Although these businesses are publicly operated by Dariel, this is just a trial of his brother; And the well -known exatleta would be the true owner of the MSME.
In fact, Sotomayor Sanabria link with the businesses that brings together this MSME is not a secret. It is common to find photos of the jumper promoting the private company and even cutting slats to inaugurate the new businesses that add to its empire.
Also in the profiles of the company they publish another bus State Security Alfonso Larrea or the Cuban American Hugo Cancio.
D’Aroto, an empire that extended too much
Since the micro, small and medium enterprises were approved in Cuba three years ago, more than 11,000 have been created on the island, according to official figures. This is a number that might seem hopeful for a country that satanized private property for decades.
However, experts and press have warned about an increase in the offensive against private businesses that translates into fines, seizures, business closure, police investigations.
Create a mipyme in Cuba (with the ideological reviews demanded by the process) is not available to anyone. Much less is to achieve prosperity within a system designed to stop private initiative; except for those who pay their companies with their companies or members of the dome. Because even known figures and that have always been loyal to the dictatorship can be trampled, as Javier Sotomayor happens now.
Already a first business stumbling block had “the prince of the heights” at the beginning of 2024 when they closed their 2.45 bar in the Cuban capital. Since last March the business, located in a capitalist mansion that gave him Fidel Castro, hung on his networks a temporary closing poster and 10 months later the situation has not changed.
As for the other Sotomayor business, the MSME now accused of fiscal evasion, began in Matanzas as a simple pizzeria with home delivery in 2022. By June 2023 to the family’s businesses an entrepreneurship of sale of food was added in a local that rent the state entity Cimex. In February of the following year they opened the still life with the dream of turning it into a luxury restaurant in the city.
The Sotomayor empire continued to grow and added An online store that offers food, cleaning products, attachments for cars. They are products that are paid in foreign exchange through cards associated with international accounts. That is, Sotomayor has also taken a small slice of the popular business of selling to the emigrants what their families need on the island.
Even the exilet “The diet”, An entrepreneurship that allows a website to buy currencies in cash. For example, if a Cuban resident abroad want someone on the island to receive 100 USD, can acquire them through this page. The process is simple: enter the beneficiary data and pay a 5%commission. Then the mipyme of the Saltador takes the cash to the Family Meeting in Cuba.
Last May, with the Havana Bar closed, they celebrated another successful venture in Matanzas. On day two they opened a gastronomic center at the Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer International Airport in Varadero. To “baptize” the business to Javier himself, he attended white shirt and jeans. The Olympic champion took photos by cutting the ribbon, while his brother, the trial of his business, watched and audited to hold him.
Today, with the opinion of the recent audit, all these businesses of the Sotomayor family could suffer the same destination as the Havana bar 2.45.
On February 1, in the publication he later deleted and where he denounced the millionaire fine, Dariel Sotomayor Rivero, he questioned that the allusions to the “blockade” and Donal Trump were constant in Cuba, when “we are doing evil ourselves.” However, the young matancer emphasized that it was not the fault of the government, or the system. The same system that allowed his brother to expand their businesses and exceed unthinkable limits for most, until one day fell out of favor.
Note: Cubanet contacted the Sotomayor family through WhatsApp but has not answered our questions.
