Cuba frees Canadian businessman Tokmakjian after three years in jail


  • World
  • Sunday, 22 Feb 2015

Canadian transport executive Cy Tokmakjian is shown in this undated handout photo from Tokmakjian's representative. REUTERS/Courtesy of Cy Tokmakjian/Handout via Reuters

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has freed Canadian businessman Cy Tokmakjian after more than three years in jail, his company said on Saturday, resolving a case that had strained Cuban-Canadian relations and alarmed foreign investors.

Tokmakjian, founder of the Ontario-based company, was convicted of bribery and other charges and sentenced to 15 years in September in what the transportation company had called a "show trial" and a "travesty of justice."

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