Published December 05,2023
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US authorities have charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with secretly working as an agent for Cuba for many years, in line with the Justice Department on Monday.
Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, who served because the US ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, faces a number of federal expenses for allegedly appearing as an agent of the Republic of Cuba’s authorities, the Department mentioned in a press release.
Rocha has been engaged on behalf of Cuba since 1981, in line with the assertion.
“This action exposes one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent,” Attorney General Merrick Garland mentioned in a press release.
According to Garland, Rocha served as an agent of the Cuban authorities for over 40 years, acquiring positions inside the US authorities that granted him entry to delicate info.
“Those who have the privilege of serving in the government of the United States are given an enormous amount of trust by the public we serve. To betray that trust by falsely pledging loyalty to the United States while serving a foreign power is a crime that will be met with the full force of the Justice Department,” he added.
Rocha is charged with three felony counts, together with conspiring to behave as an agent of a overseas authorities, appearing as an agent of a overseas authorities with out prior notification to the Attorney General, and utilizing a passport obtained by false assertion.
Following his detention in Miami on Friday, Rocha is anticipated to make an preliminary look earlier than a US Magistrate Judge in Miami on Monday.
Source: www.anews.com.tr