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The Spanish Martiño Ramos Soto, sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for the sexual assault of a minor student, was extradited from Cuba to Spain this Wednesday after months of diplomatic efforts between both countries.
Sources close to the process informed the EFE agency that Ramos Soto boarded a plane headed to Madrid from Havana this Wednesday after voluntarily agreeing to his transfer to serve his imprisonment.
The Supreme Court of Spain had confirmed its sentence on July 25, 2025 for sexual abuse with sadistic practices against a female student aged between 12 and 16, committed between 2019 and 2021.
The proven facts establish that Ramos Soto contacted the victim when she was 12 years old, in 2019, through Instagram, pretending to be another boy, and assaulted her three times outside the school, resulting in serious psychological consequences that included self-harm and psychiatric hospitalizations.
In addition to the prison sentence, the ruling included 21 and a half years of disqualification from professions involving minors, eight and a half years of supervised release, a prohibition on approaching the victim for 20 and a half years, and compensation of 30,000 euros.
Before the firmness of the sentence was communicated to him, Ramos Soto fled Spain in July 2025, following a planned route: Portugal, Brazil, Peru, and finally Cuba, a country he deliberately chose because it has no active extradition treaty with Spain.
He was a former member of the now-defunct En Marea and well-known in his city.
In Havana, he lived under the false identity of "Martín Soto" until a young Cuban tagged him on Instagram as Martín Soto, which allowed authorities to locate him.
After being identified, he was arrested on November 21, 2025 on the island, initiating an extradition process that was not without its challenges.
For weeks, it was reported that Cuba was creating bureaucratic and diplomatic obstacles to the process, which delayed the handover to the Spanish authorities.
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