Posted on 09/30/2024 10:55:08 PM PDT by ransomnote
New one to me. Hagerstown is almost 3 hoUrs from me,BTW.
Cuba’s justice system protected Fidel Castro’s son and covered up his ties to drug traffickers and money launderers
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1729183725_57834.html
Translated excerpt:
In Cuba, protecting the reputation of Fidel Castro’s son is more important than justice being served
..... the Provincial Court of Cienfuegos tried, on charges of money laundering and the falsification of documents, six citizens who had close ties to two alleged drug traffickers based in the United States: Enrique Anicio Artiles Mata and Elvis Artiles Martín. The first was also a friend of Alejandro Castro Soto del Valle, one of Fidel Castro’s sons, to whom he even gave gifts, according to the statements by four of the six people prosecuted in Cuba, as could be seen in images of the proceedings revealed exclusively by DIARIO DE CUBA.
Despite this, neither the judge who presided over the trial nor the prosecutors showed any interest in this citizen testifying. We spoke about the gravity of this omission with former Cuban judge Edel González Jiménez, a member of DIARIO DE CUBA’s legal team.
Was Castro Soto del Valle’s appearance relevant to the trial in Cienfuegos? By not summoning him, did the Court violate any law in force in Cuba at the time?
Yes. Having called Alejandro Castro del Valle, initially as a witness, or as a defendant, was compulsory because he maintained a close, decisive and questionable link with Artiles Mata. According to three of those convicted, Castro Soto del Valle spent the night at Artiles Mata’s house, met with, and received presents from him. Therefore, he was or is in a position to specify whether or not the money in question came from alleged drug trafficking in the United States.
The omission indicated constitutes a violation of the Criminal Procedure Law in force at the time. Castro Soto del Valle should have been summoned to appear in the proceedings, like the six people tried (and convicted), and it should have been investigated what he received and what he knew about the dealings of the defendants, accused of alleged drug trafficking in the US and convicted in absentia by the Court of Cienfuegos.
His testimony could have saved Maikel Omar Morejón Mata, Esbel Morejón Sánchez, Fausto Lázaro López Soler del Castillo, Elvis Blanco Mata, Jorge Luis Araujo López and Odalis Sabina Martín Cuéllar (the six defendants, convicted in Cuba) from going to prison, had he testified that he did not know about any drug trafficking and that he believed the claims of Artiles Mata and Artiles Martín that their businesses in the United States were successful.
The fact that proper process was not followed, in accordance with the established law and justice, constitutes another possible example of the impunity enjoyed by the descendants of the Castros and certain members of structures that protect the family in power, even when it is linked to people related to very serious crimes. This denotes the lack of transparency in Cuba.
What specific articles of the then current Legal Procedure Law were violated by not calling upon Castro Soto del Valle to testify?
Article 104 of the Criminal Procedure Law stated that pre-trial proceedings should include all those actions necessary to confirm and verify the legal classification of the crime in question, as well as to determine the actual participation and degree of it by the alleged perpetrators. In addition, these actions are aimed at protecting the alleged perpetrators of the act through the corresponding precautionary measures.
This means that statements should have been taken from all the people, without exception, with known links to Artiles Mata and Artiles Martin. The gifts that Artiles Mata gave Fidel Castro’s son also should have been investigated, as well as the vehicle that he sold to him, to ascertain whether they were acquired with the allegedly ill-gotten money.
It was particularly important to have determined whether Fidel Castro’s son should have appeared at the trial as a defendant or as a witness, as well as to have confirmed the identities of the Interior Ministry officials who had links to the alleged criminals, Artiles Mata and Artiles Martin, as it was necessary to clarify whether any or all of them were involved in corruption or drug trafficking. These crimes are tried and punished harshly when committed by the rest of the Cuban population.
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Sounds familiar twp tiered justice system.
Deep state taking lessons from Castrogonia or as many say is Castrogonia a deep state puppet our doorstep?
s/b two tiered not twp oops
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