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Cuba mulls verdict for US spy suspect

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-03-06 11:59

HAVANA - A Cuban tribunal is deliberating on a pending verdict for a US contractor accused of spying after a trial, local radio reported on Saturday.

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The Board of Crimes has concluded the two-day trial of Alan Gross for his "acts against the Cuban independence or territorial integrity," the report said, without mentioning the date of sentencing. According to Cuban laws, authorities have six days to give the veredict and Gross could face 20 years in prison.

"The trial is finally over, the defender will receive the communication with the sentence, but we do not know when," an official from the US Interests Section Section in Havana told reporters.

Gross was arrested on December 3, 2009, at an Havana airport on charges of providing satellite communication equipments to anti-government groups, but Washington said Gross is an employee of the "Development Alternatives company" and was helping Cuban Jews to communicate with Jews abroad.