Ikea ‘used Cuban prisoners to make furniture’

The Cuban deal got off to a bad start when the first delivery of sofas was rejected because the quality failed to reach the “quality standards of Ikea”. This failure prompted East German officials to travel to Cuba in an attempt to improve quality because only then “could a direct shipment from Havana to Sweden be undertaken”.

It remains unclear if the furniture was delivered or whether the deal floundered following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and subsequent German reunification.

A spokesman for Ikea told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the company had no knowledge of the Cuban deal.

The allegations will further embarrass the Swedish company that has already has its name tarnished by the East German allegations. Earlier in the week it issued a statement saying it took the allegations of forced labour “extremely seriously” and that if prison labour was used by Ikea suppliers then it was “totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable”.

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