Miami man in illegal business with Cuba faces 35 years in prison
Miami man in illegal business with Cuba faces 35 years in prison
Fugitive for 17 years now facing 35 years in prison
Posted on Tuesday, 02.05.13
By Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Pedro Adriano Borges might not be in jail today if only he had waited 20 years to take part in a scheme that shipped a measly $93,000 worth of goods from Miami to Cuba.
Since the U.S. Congress changed one of the laws covering the trade embargo against Cuba in 2002, U.S. agricultural goods can be legally exported to Cuba and hit a whopping $711 million in 2008. They hit $430 million last year.
But the Cuba-born Borges, 68, was a couple of years ahead of that law and is now jailed in South Florida while awaiting a federal trial under a 1997 indictment charging that he and four other men illegally shipped 18 containers to Cuba.
The goods sent between 1993 and 1996 included spices and mayonnaise as well as light bulbs and diapers, according to court documents in the case. The receivers in Cuba paid $93,000 for the shipments.
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