Granny-. On the basis of the guidelines adopted by the Council of Ministers to prevent and combat crime, corruption, illegal activities and social indiscipline, numerous illegal activities have been uncovered in this eastern province, which have their main breeding ground in the lack of state control sector entities.
Héctor Cordero Hernández, head of the Directorate of Comprehensive Surveillance (DIS) in , told this newspaper that as a result of the inspections, the operations carried out jointly with the Ministry of the Interior and the verification of citizens’ complaints , it was demonstrated that a large part of the products , which are sold on the provincial illicit market, comes from state institutions.
In this sense, he stressed that more than 50 fines have been imposed for the illegal sale in households of Criollo cigarettes, the price of which averaged about 200 pesos per pack, “ie about 20 times the official price,” added the manager added.
Other surveillance carried out by the DIS found that in the basic business unit of Acopio, in the municipality of Bayamo, the purchase of 5,000 pairs of rubber boots from an MSME based in Havana had been made for an amount of 7.5 million pesos, without any invoices or contracts or booking documents.
Cordero Hernández added that flea markets have been another convenient place to promote the commercialization of products imported or stolen by government agencies. “In a single day’s action across the province, 31 people were fined for violating flea market regulations and products were confiscated for lack of legality.”
Other violations found in the field show that various state agencies are hoarding products such as oil, cleaning products, food, medicines, gas bullets and others for later resale in the informal market; while in some wineries the price of the published offers has been falsified.