Overview
- The Supreme Popular Tribunal also imposed a concurrent 20-year term for bribery, falsification of documents, influence peddling and tax evasion.
- Court statements accuse Gil of taking money from foreign companies, bribing officials and mishandling classified material by making it available to “the enemy.”
- Gil has 10 days to appeal the verdict, and Cuban law provides for an automatic review of life sentences that requires a second trial.
- Reuters reported it could not reach Gil or his lawyer for comment, and independent verification is limited because the trials and records were closed.
- Officials and reporting frame the prosecution as the most significant since the 1989 Arnaldo Ochoa case.