Cuba Cracks Down on Thefts From Port
A Cuban court has sentenced 41 people, including port officials and customs officers, to fines and jail terms of up to 15 years for stealing clothes and other goods from eight ship containers unloaded at the port of Havana.
The official Communist Party daily Granma said Monday that the case was one of the biggest so far in a nationwide crackdown by Cuba’s Communist authorities on crime, corruption and black marketeering. More than 500 people have been arrested since the crackdown began last November.
Some of the ship containers, filled with foreign consumer articles like clothes, women’s shoes, handbags and perfume, were removed whole from the port during 1989 and 1990 and their contents sold on the black market.
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