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The former US ambassador was sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying for Cuba

The former US ambassador to Bolivia was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the crime of spying for the Washington government on Cuba for several decades.

report Mehr Newsweek, according to Newsweek, a court in Miami, after accepting the confession of Victor Manuel Roja, the former US ambassador to Bolivia, accused him of spying for the US government for Cuba for decades. , sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Bet Blum, the judge of the District Court of Miami, while confirming this sentence, sentenced Roja to pay a fine of 500,000.

The US Attorney General issued an indictment against 73-year-old Rukhai last December. America’s Attorney General Merrick Garland called this case “one of the highest level and longest cases of influence of a foreign agent in the American government”.

Matthew Olsen, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, said about this: This guilty plea and subsequent conviction ended more than four decades of betrayal and deception on the part of the accused.

He continued: Roja admitted that while holding several sensitive positions, he was active as an influencer of the Cuban government; A shocking betrayal of the American people and a confirmation that every one of his oaths was a lie.

 

© Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Mehr News Agency
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