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The former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba Alejandro Gil Fernández, who was dismissed on February 2, 2024 and is under investigation by the regime since March 7, 2024, is facing two separate judicial processes. One of them, the more serious one, is for espionage, and the Prosecutor's Office is seeking a life sentence. According to sources accessed by CiberCuba, this trial is expected to be held behind closed doors in the People's Supreme Court of Cuba.
The second legal process is regarding the remaining charges against Gil Fernández and an undefined group of individuals under investigation, whom the state media have not seen fit to identify. This could be public, according to the same sources.
Against Gil Fernández, in addition to espionage, there are accusations of embezzlement, bribery, tax evasion, money laundering, forgery of public documents, activities detrimental to economic activity, removal of documents, influence peddling, and violation of regulations regarding the protection of classified documents.
They would be taken to trial with Gil Fernández, according to a recent report by 14yMedio, for about twenty defendants who are being asked to serve a minimum of 15 years in prison, compared to the 30 years of imprisonment that the Public Prosecutor's Office is requesting for Gil Fernández, as sources close to the case have confirmed to CiberCuba.
Among those investigated who have not been identified by the regime, there would be, according to 14yMedio, a deputy from the National Assembly and a provincial first secretary of the PCC, but this information has not been able to be verified by CiberCuba. This platform specifically asked the sister of the convicted former minister, the veteran television presenter María Victoria Gil Fernández de Ayala, but she stated that she does not know who is included in the "rest of the accused" in the case.
It so happens that between February and April 2024, the first secretaries of the PCC were dismissed in Cuba: Marydé Fernández López (February 21 in Cienfuegos); Susely Morfa (in March, in Matanzas, but in 2025 she was appointed to the same position in Villa Clara); Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar (in April, in Havana); Manuel René Pérez Gallego (in April in Las Tunas), Julio Heriberto Casanova (in March, in Ciego de Ávila) and Ernesto Santiesteban (in April, in Holguín).
This year, 2025, three first secretaries of the Communist Party of Cuba have been dismissed, but official statements assure that in all three cases, the ousted officials would take on new responsibilities within the PCC's organizational framework.
They have left the provincial party leadership: on March 25, Walter Simón from Las Tunas; on May 16, Yuniasky Crespo from Mayabeque; and on June 11, Osnay Colina from Villa Clara.
The sister of the former minister said in an interview given this Wednesday to CiberCuba that she hopes her brother will be tried before the end of this year.
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