A court in Cuba has jailed 18 government officials for between five and 15 years for stealing more than eight million eggs and selling them on the black market.
The men include executives of the state-run egg distribution company. One of them was acquitted for lack of evidence but six others have been ordered to pay back the money stolen, Cuban authorities said.
Prosecutors said the gang had cost the communist-run island more than $350,000 (£230,000) in lost revenue.
Prosecutors said the officials had used false accounting, fake receipts and unauthorised delivery routes to run a black market in eggs.
President Raul Castro launched an anti-corruption campaign in 2009. He declared at the time that corruption was a cancer in the communist-run country.
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