More than 15 million pesos add up to the amount offines applied toself-employed of the province ofHoly Spirit during 2022, according to data published in local official media.
To date, 40,900 inspections have been carried out in that territory in the center of the island, which have generated 38,700 fines due to impacts on consumers in terms of high prices, violations of hygienic and sanitary measures and attacks on public ornamentation, points out this Wednesday the local official mediaEscambray.
The total amount of fines imposed in 2022 amounts to 15,158,000 pesos, according to information provided by the Provincial Inspection Directorate to the aforementioned local media.
In this amount, they also say, violations by transporters and self-employed workers, in addition to illegal people who sell products at high prices, without paying taxes or having permission to market merchandise, had a significant impact.
Among the causes of the fines for self-employed workers, they point out the offer of basic necessities and services with high prices, in addition to price violations at Urban Agriculture and Collection points, where the amounts for the sales of food approved by the Council of the Administration of Popular Power.
High prices were also detected at garage sales and in the Market Square of the provincial capital, where the prices of their offers do not always correspond to the quality of the products they sell.
During 2022, almost 7,400 more inspections were carried out in Sancti Spíritus than in 2021, in addition to almost 6,870 more fines being imposed, for an amount greater than 2,700,000.
However, none of these measures made a dent in the rampant inflation experienced on the island in terms of prices or in satisfying the demand for food, transportation, among other essential products and services.
At the beginning of November it was also known thatThe Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Sancti Spíritus (FPSS) had imposed fines of up to 7,000 pesos and confiscated all the seized assets in operations carried out jointly with the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) against resellers.
Until the end of October, these entities had imposed 280 administrative fines, between 1,000 and 5,000 pesos, sometimes reaching up to 7,000 pesos, according to data published in the local official media.Escambray.
María Esmeralda Pérez Pérez, head of the Department of Criminal Procedures of the FPSS, assured the local media on that occasion that the most frequent crimes in Sancti Spíritus were associated with hoarding and speculation and, to a lesser extent, with illicit economic activity.
“These crimes threaten the people's purchasing power and are classified in the current Penal Code with sanctions of deprivation of liberty ranging from three months to one year, or fines of 100 to 300 installments. In the case of speculation, it is also punishable, as is illicit economic activity,” explained the official who omitted to refer to the structural causes that cause the increase in these phenomena.
Pérez Pérez also stated that in 2022 the sanctions were linked to crimes related to the hoarding of personal hygiene products, such as soap or detergent.
In addition, he said, the operations were concentrated against the illegal trade of products such as oil, rice, cheese, as well as the sale of boxes of cigarettes at a premium, given their high demand among the population.
The prosecutor also warned on that occasion that sanctions of deprivation of liberty, from one to three years, can be imposed when materials of illicit origin are used or when there is a license to carry out self-employment and some labor is used. illegal or illicit product.
Even so, he admitted, in 2022 there are no complaints filed by the population related to prices of essential products in the informal market.
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