FIVE members of Cuba’s national volleyball team have been jailed for rape in Finland.

The players were accused of raping a Finnish woman at a hotel in the southern town of Tampere where the Cuban team was staying during Volleyball World League games.

The 27-year-old team captain, Rolando Cepeda Abreu, as well as Abrahan Alfonso Gavilan, 21, Ricardo Calvo Manzano, 19, and Osmany Uriarte Mestre, 21, were handed five-year prison sentences for aggravated rape, while their teammate Luis Sosa Sierra, 21, received a shorter sentence of three years and six months.

A sixth player, Dariel Albo Miranda, 24, was acquitted of the same charge.

Finnish police have not revealed any details about the alleged rape, to protect the victim and the investigation.