A Cuban citizen faces a deportation order issued by Estonian authorities for transferring illegal Cuban migrants from Russia to the Baltic country.
The Tartu County Court, in Estonia, found the Cuban guiltyDianelys Patricia Cabrera Echemendia, 24 years old, of the crime of illegally crossing the border of that country and transporting other illegal migrants with her.
Cabrera Echemendia reached a plea agreement in the Võru court and received a sentence of three months in real prison - which was due to end on November 29 - after which she will be deported for five years from Estonian territory.
The events occurred on the night of August 16, when the Estonian authorities discovered a group of people who were illegally crossing their borders through the municipality of Setomaa, in Võrumaa, according to what was published by the portalDelphi.
The border guard patrol that responded to the incident detained five citizens of the Republic of Cuba who were transferred to the Piusa border cordon for procedural actions, where they requested international protection.
Once a medical examination of the immigrants had been carried out, the Estonian authorities began a procedure to find out the exact circumstances of the illegal border crossing.
Two weeks later, Cabrera Echemendia was arrested as one of five suspects in the crime. The Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District sent her to court on charges of illegally crossing the border of the Republic of Estonia and illegally transporting other foreigners with her.
The accusation states that between 09:33 on August 15 and 03:12 on August 16, the Cuban woman and her four compatriots crossed the border between Estonia and Russia through Setomaa, in Võru county, coming from Russia.
In mid-September,Four Cuban citizens were sentenced to be forcibly expelled from Russia after his arrest in the area of the Kunichina Gora multilateral checkpoint, on the Russian border with Estonia.
When appearing in court, the defendants alleged that they had traveled to Pechory as tourists with some friends and that they were unaware that they were in the border area with Estonia.
The court fined each of them 500 rubles and ordered their forcible removal from Russia. The information published did not confirm whether their intention was to cross the border point to access the Schengen area, of which Estonia is a part.
At the end of July,a transnational criminal organization that illegally trafficked Cuban citizens It was dismantled in collaboration with INTERPOL and EUROPOL, according to what the Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced in a statement.
The migrants traveled from Cuba to Serbia, a country that did not require a visa for Cubans, from where they were transferred to Greece and then to Spain.
It is estimated that the organizationHe was able to traffic with more than 5 thousand Cubans who were charged 9 thousand euros, which would mean a profit of about 45 million euros.
A total of 62 people were arrested in Spain, Serbia and Greece,of which 25 were Cubans who had false documentation, while another 37 belonged to the criminal organization.
At the end of July also, but in 2021, three Cubans were detained by Russian border authorities whenThey were trying to reach the European Union on inflatable mattresses, reported theBBC.
The Cubans were discovered trying to cross the Narva River, on the border with Estonia, in the hope of reaching Spain, where one of them has a daughter.
The three were fined and transferred with deportation orders to a migrant detention center near St. Petersburg.
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