At least seven people – five men and two women – were convicted in Cuba for promoting services to obtain false immigration documents and participating in illegal activities associated with the human trafficking.
In the stellar broadcast of National Television News On Monday it was reported that the sentences handed down against the accused are from five to 28 years of deprivation of liberty for the crimes of human trafficking, document falsification and robbery with violence.
The defendants were discovered after selling false documentation to leave the country to an individual with pending legal problems, in exchange for a considerable sum of money, the report detailed.
Lieutenant Geovanis Ricardo Andino, criminal instructor of the case, said that mode of operation of the accused was through the social network Telegram, through which they attracted people interested in lucrative businesses.
Then they intimidated them with knives and even firearms and stole large sums of money. In one case the theft amounted to $50,000, he explained.
Andino urged Cubans to use legal channels to obtain immigration documents and not fall into scams.
This information transcends when the general debate of the XXXIII Period of Sessions of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice takes place in Vienna, Austria, an event in which the First Deputy Minister of Justice of Cuba, Rosabel Gamón Verde, participates.
The official reaffirmed during a speech at that forum Cuba's commitment to the fight against human trafficking; and said that the island respects current international cooperation agreements.
Likewise, he highlighted the government's "strategic focus on crime prevention"; but he did not mention the accusations against the regime of human trafficking to serve Russia in the war against Ukraine.
It is believed that between 400 and 3,000 Cubans have joined Vladimir Putin's army as mercenaries, with the complicity of the Havana regime. Many of them through a human trafficking network with links to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In mid-March, the Ukrainian government denounced the growing presence of Cuban soldiers in the war at a press conference held in kyiv. "We see photographs, videos from the Russian side where many mercenaries from Cuba are seen," said then the press chief of the Ukrainian Committee for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Petro Yatsenko.
On that occasion, the official reproached the Cuban government for the tolerance towards the recruitment of people of the island by Russia, despite reports that many are traveling deceived and have died on the front.
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