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Cuba has accused 30 people of stealing 133 tons of chicken and selling them on the street, amid a time of food shortage on the island.
The thieves stole meat from a COPMAR facility (the government food distributor) in Havana, in 1,660 white boxes and used the profits from the sale to buy refrigerators, laptops, televisions and air conditioners, according to the Cuban state television this weekend.
The authorities did not specify when the chicken theft occurred, but indicated that it probably occurred between midnight and 2:00 a.m., when they detected fluctuations in the temperature of the cold room.
Video surveillance captured the trucks transporting the chicken out of the facility.
Among the 30 defendants are shift managers and IT workers at the plant, as well as security guards and people outside the company.
The suspects, if convicted, could be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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