Cuba’s top prosecutor has charged the country’s former economy minister and others with alleged espionage and a string of financial crimes.

The office of Cuba’s attorney general announced on Friday it had completed a nearly two-year criminal investigation of Alejandro Gil, who served as minister of economy and planning from 2019 until his removal in February 2024, and a number of other unnamed defendants.

Gil and the others are to be held responsible for “espionage, acts detrimental to economic activity or contracting, embezzlement, bribery”, the office said, without saying which country or actors may have benefitted from their activities.

Other charges include forgery of public documents, tax evasion, influence peddling, money laundering, violation of rules on classified documents, and

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