The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued a statement today to inform about the notification of sentences to Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández, which due to its importance, we transmit in its entirety.

The Supreme People’s Court informs that this Monday, 8 December 2025, it notified the sentences of the criminal proceedings against the accused Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández.

The oral hearings took place between the 11th and 13th of November 2025 and between the 26th and 29th of the same month.

In the first criminal case, he was found responsible for the crimes of espionage, acts detrimental to economic activity or contracting; as well as bribery, removal and damage of documents or other objects under official custody and violation of official seals and infringement of the rules for the protection of classified documents, the latter being of a continuous nature.

As a result of this classification, the Court imposed the combined penalty of life imprisonment.

In the second proceeding, he was considered responsible for the crimes of bribery of a continuous nature as a means to commit forgery of public documents; as well as influence peddling and tax evasion, both of a continuous nature.

In this case, the Court imposed the combined penalty of twenty years’ imprisonment.

In both proceedings against Gil Fernández, ancillary penalties of confiscation of assets, prohibition from exercising functions involving the administration or disposal of human, material and financial resources and deprivation of public rights, among others, were applied.

In determining the penalties to be imposed, the Court took into account Articles 147 of the Constitution of the Republic, as well as 71.1 and 29 of the Penal Code, related to the purposes of punishment, evaluating the social harmfulness of the acts committed by the accused.

Alejandro Miguel Gil Fernández, through corrupt and deceitful conduct, took advantage of the authority granted by the responsibilities he assumed to obtain personal benefits, receiving money from foreign firms and bribing other public officials to legalise the acquisition of assets.

He deceived the country’s leadership and the people he represented, thereby causing damage to the economy. He violated work procedures with the official classified information he handled, removed it, damaged it and finally made it available to enemy services.

These highly damaging behaviours demonstrated in the accused an ethical, moral and political degradation that makes him deserving of a severe criminal response, as demanded by Article 4 of the Constitution of the Republic, which establishes that treason against the homeland is the gravest of crimes and those who commit it are subject to the most severe sanctions. The sanctioned acts also violate the United Nations Convention against Corruption, of which Cuba is a signatory member.

The accused and the Prosecution have the right to file the appeals provided for by law within a period of ten days.

Regarding the penalty of life imprisonment, even if the sentence is not challenged, the Court ex officio processes an appeal, as a guarantee for the accused enshrined in the Criminal Procedure Law.

Once the appeals against the sentences are resolved, if his responsibility is confirmed, a single combined penalty to be executed from all the imposed sentences will be formed, as provided for in Article 86 of the current Penal Code.

Both the accused and his lawyers acknowledged that during the processing of the cases and the oral trial proceedings, the rights and guarantees enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic and the Criminal Procedure Law were observed.