6 Cuban officials sentenced to jail for embezzlement
Six officials have been sentenced in the eastern Cuban province of Holguinto to prison terms ranging from six to 20 years for embezzlement, reported Cuban daily Juventud Rebelde Friday.

The six former directors of the state-owned Communal Services Company were accused of pocketing more than half of the resources earmarked for buying plants for Holguin city in a fraud that lasted from January 2001 to the end of September 2003.

The company said it had spent around 7.6 million Cuban pesos (304,000 U.S. dollars) on buying nearly 1.6 million plants.

But only around 270,000 plants or 17 percent of the totally bought have been actually planted and they are only worth around 1.3 million pesos (52,000 dollars).