Overview
- The Supreme Popular Tribunal announced a life sentence for espionage after closed-door proceedings and a concurrent 20-year term in a separate corruption case.
- The court said Gil removed, damaged and disclosed classified material to enemy services and received money from foreign firms while bribing other officials.
- Authorities did not identify any foreign beneficiary of the alleged spying, and state media offered few details beyond the trial dates and the verdicts.
- Gil has 10 days to file an appeal, and Cuban law mandates a second trial when a life sentence is imposed.
- The former minister, dismissed in February 2024 and absent from public view until the trials, led contentious 2021 monetary reforms and is at the center of one of the island’s most prominent cases in decades.