• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 10 / 09 / 2010

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Chilean businessman Max Marambio began legal proceedings before the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Chile’s La Tercera newspaper reported.

In what seems like a response to Marambio’s move, Cuba on Thursday asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant.

After a one-year investigation, Cuba in May accused the co-owner of Cuba-based Alimentos Río Zaza of bribing officials and indicted Marambio.

“The central objective of this legal action is the unrestricted defense of my honor, that of my collaborators, and of all people who have cooperated with, and trusted in, the entrepreneurial project Río Zaza,” Marambio wrote in a press release. He explained the ICC was the forum for disputes indicated by the Cuban government to foreign investors, adding that the ICC offers the necessary neutrality to “fight a conflict built on unfounded and libelous accusations.”

He said the prosecution was initiated by “some Cuban authorities” who “exceeded their legal status.”

“I will go through this process with serenity, prudence and firmness,” Marambio said. “I will do this maintaining the same feelings of admiration and respect towards what has been the Cuban Revolution, with the certainty that the truth is always revolutionary and always ends up winning, if it is defended with solidity and conviction.”

Since the 1990s Marambio, a former student leader in Chile and member of Cuba’s special forces, used his close relationship with the Cuban government to build a thriving business.

Source: www.cubastandard.com/2010/10/07/marambio-countersues/