Mastermind of Controversial Cayo Santa María Music Fest Faces 18 Federal Charges Including Money Laundering

After the arrest of Boris Arencibia, mastermind of the controversial Cayo Santa María Music Fest in Cuba, was confirmed, new details have emerged about his case that point to a total of 18 federal charges, including alleged money laundering.

Boris Arencibia, 50, appears with registration number 60626-004, in the Miami-Dade County jail.

The station La Poderosa 670 AM He indicated on social networks that Arencibia would be involved in the “fraudulent use of federal benefit programs,” among the almost two dozen charges he would face.

The festival in Cayo Santa María, which in its last edition brought together international artists such as Tekashi69, would be directly linked to the accusations against its main organizer for alleged money laundering.

At the moment, no further details have been revealed about the process that Arencibia could face, although both his arrest and the 18 charges in the making suggest that federal authorities are targeting the producer, his festival and other possible irregularities.

According to America TeVe on its website, “A search of the judicial archives shows that a person with the same name and registration number, born in Cuba on September 7, 1973, was arrested along with another person named Benigno Camilo Balsa on September 1 May 2000, accused of fraud and conspiracy to possess false credit card manufacturing equipment, charges to which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced on November 9 of that year to six months in prison and three years of supervised release, barred from in addition to being able to have firearms.

Boris Arencibia is a former judo champion in Cuba, who supposedly defected from a Cuban team in 1993 in Puerto Rico.

Her IG page, normally very active, has been deactivated. but the one on FB still is visible.

We will have to wait for future revelations about this media case that unites the world of entertainment with politics and has unleashed angry reactions among the Cuban exile in the United States.


2024-01-28 23:26:57
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