Posada Carriles charged on seven counts, but no terrorist ones
WASHINGTON
January 11
A Federal Court in the western district of Texas has brought formal charges against Luis Posada Carriles on seven counts, which include fraud in the naturalization process and six others for giving false information during interviews with immigration authorities.
The Justice Department affirms in a press release that Posada Carriles lied in his immigration application – on filling out the form – and then under oath in interviews with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials on April 25 and 26, 2006.
The report states that during that encounter with immigration officials, he lied on several occasions about his entry into the United States in March 2005, specifically regarding the route and transportation utilized, as well as about the two individuals who accompanied him.
He said that he had arrived from Honduras, via Belize, and entered the United States at a place called Matadores with the help of a coyote, “when we know that he entered aboard the Santrina with four individuals,” affirms the note, thus confirming Cuban President Fidel Castro’s accusations.
Posada Carriles also alleged that he did not have a Guatemalan passport, “when we know that he had false identification from that country in the name of Manuel Enrique Castillo López,” it adds.
Posada Carriles has to appear before a Federal Court judge at the beginning of next week. For these crimes, he could receive a 35-year sentence: 10 years for fraud and five on each count of false information given to the immigration authorities.
However, he is not to be tried on the main charge: that of being a terrorist, for being the mastermind of many crimes, including the sabotage of a Cubana Aviation passenger plane in 1976, which cost the lives of 73 people, or for the wave of bomb attacks on tourist installations in Havana in September 1997, which caused the death of Italian Fabio di Celmo, as well as injuries to Cuban citizens.
January 11
A Federal Court in the western district of Texas has brought formal charges against Luis Posada Carriles on seven counts, which include fraud in the naturalization process and six others for giving false information during interviews with immigration authorities.
The Justice Department affirms in a press release that Posada Carriles lied in his immigration application – on filling out the form – and then under oath in interviews with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials on April 25 and 26, 2006.
The report states that during that encounter with immigration officials, he lied on several occasions about his entry into the United States in March 2005, specifically regarding the route and transportation utilized, as well as about the two individuals who accompanied him.
He said that he had arrived from Honduras, via Belize, and entered the United States at a place called Matadores with the help of a coyote, “when we know that he entered aboard the Santrina with four individuals,” affirms the note, thus confirming Cuban President Fidel Castro’s accusations.
Posada Carriles also alleged that he did not have a Guatemalan passport, “when we know that he had false identification from that country in the name of Manuel Enrique Castillo López,” it adds.
Posada Carriles has to appear before a Federal Court judge at the beginning of next week. For these crimes, he could receive a 35-year sentence: 10 years for fraud and five on each count of false information given to the immigration authorities.
However, he is not to be tried on the main charge: that of being a terrorist, for being the mastermind of many crimes, including the sabotage of a Cubana Aviation passenger plane in 1976, which cost the lives of 73 people, or for the wave of bomb attacks on tourist installations in Havana in September 1997, which caused the death of Italian Fabio di Celmo, as well as injuries to Cuban citizens.
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