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Report: A leader of Cuba’s cigar industry arrested

Friday, April 29 2011

By Juan O. Tamayo | The Miami Herald

Manuel Garcia, a long-time vice-president of Cuba's cigar industry, has been arrested and 10 of his staffers may face trial for corruption, according to the British news magazine The Economist.

The Miami Herald logoIn a report posted Thursday on its Web site, the newsweekly reported Garcia, the No. 2 at Habanos S.A., has been in jail since August, "accused of mastermind graft on a grand scale."

Cuban investigators believe Garcia and 10 of his staffers, "who also face trial," were accepting bribes in exchange for selling Cuban cigars at a discount to black market distributors in the Caribbean, The Economist reported.

Read more at miamiherald.com...

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