The robbery occurred in the offices located in the Mariel Free Zone
14ymedio, Havana, July 19, 2024 — One of the best-insured economic enclaves of the Cuban regime, the Mariel Special Development Zone, is involved in a scandalous embezzlement of more than 21 million pesos. The news was published this Friday by the official press, which points to the victim as the unpopular Electric Union (UNE), the same day that the electricity generation deficit again exceeded 1,000 megawatts. The events cannot be related, given that the theft occurred in 2023, but the intention for readers to sympathize with the UNE, plundered of part of its resources, is not an impossible strategy for the official press.
According to El Artemiseño, the warehouseman of a Base Business Unit of the UNE in Mariel took advantage of the permission he had to enter the company’s accounting system and manipulated the inventory. All this, the provincial newspaper clarifies, “in order to appropriate resources for whose custody and distribution the unit was responsible, destined for the energy development of that important economic enclave of the country.”
Three linemen of the company conspired with the warehouseman and used state vehicles in their care to transport the stolen items – which are not specified – in order to sell them in the “informal market. All were aware of the affect they generated due to the lack of resources in the national energy system,” says the media.
During the trial, four of the defendants received a preca