Lends 250 thousand euros, demands one and a half million: loan shark arrested in Scafati

A man arrestedoriginally from the Neapolitan area but resident in Scafati and already known to the police, because he was accused of usurious rates very high and threatening. The man, according to the accusation, had granted a entrepreneur fallen into economic difficulty, loans at usurious rates for a total amount of 250mila euroimposing the repayment of the loan with monthly installments of 18 thousand euros for the duration of 84 months, therefore claiming compensation a total sum of 1,512,000 euros.

The entrepreneur, who had turned to the loan shark for pay off another debt, unable to support the burdensome repayment plan, had become irregular in payments and, in response to this, further sums had been imposed as a “penalty”. On the occasion of the last meeting, in particular, the suspect had threatened the man and his daughter, almost physically attacking herintending the immediate payment of the sums imposed behind the threat of serious and violent retaliation, even contemplating the burning down of the company, as well as imposing, in the event of failure to satisfy one’s demands, the renunciation of family assets through the forced signing of fictitious deeds of transfer of ownership.

In the suspect’s home 65 thousand euros were found in cash as well as a large supply of precious objects hidden in the false bottom of a piece of furniture. The investigative activity, moreover, made it possible to reveal how the entrepreneur had turned to the arrested person to deal with the suffocating economic demands of another person, who in turn had imposed usurious interest rates on him. At the expense of the latter, already recipient of search and seizure decreeand paid by the spouse of the arrested person, who also intervened for solicit usurious collections, we proceed on a free foot. The investigation activities, conducted by Salerno Flying Squad and from the Nocera Inferiore police station on the direction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Nocera Inferiorewere started thanks to the victim’s complaint.