Partagas Encuentro without Figurehead

30 Oct

This year’s Partagas Encuentro de Amigos in November will be without the manager of the Partagas LCDH at the Partagas factory, Abel E. as he has been arrested last week …

This has been confirmed to me by multiple local sources from the cigar world.

Nino posting from Havana

2 Responses to “Partagas Encuentro without Figurehead”

  1. Zap 31/10/2012 at 18:32 #

    unfortunately this sad news is confirmed from several sources, the charges are international cigar smuggling and illegal owning of foreing currency… see more here (in Italian, but you can translate with the automaitc tool embedded) http://cigarevents.blogspot.it/2012/10/prime-conferme-sullarresto-di-abel.html

  2. Frank 31/10/2012 at 21:08 #

    This news has reached us to Nino.