Genoa, usury loans: an arrest and seizures for 6,000 euros
The Financiers have carried out an order of precautionary custody at home against a person who lent money to a connection in economic difficulties with an interest of even more than 500%
Genoa – The Financiers of the Provincial Command of Genoa, in the context of a complex judicial police activity conducted under the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, carried out a precautionary custody order under house arrest and a simultaneous preventive seizure decree, for a value of 6,000 euro, in the case of a person residing in the province of Genoa under investigation for the commission of the crime of usury against a Genoese entrepreneur.
The investigations, carried out by the soldiers of the Chiavari Company, have allowed us to reconstruct the entire usury action against the owners of a Genoese entrepreneur who owns an individual damage company active in the real estate brokerage sector.
The latter, in an evident state of economic difficulty, turned on two occasions to the usurer, also an entrepreneur in the catering sector, in order to obtain a loan totaling 10 thousand euros, repaying 16 thousand in a few months , paying usurious interest higher, in some cases, to 500 per cent of what was initially received.
The agreed usurer agreement provided for, against the initial, the repayment of a loan sum divided into 5 weekly installments: the first four, corresponding to the usurious interest paid, equal to 50 percent of the amount obtained as a loan, and the last one consisting of the entire sum initially lent.
For this reason, the person who had disbursed the loans over time was denounced for the commission of the crime of usury.
The Judge for Preliminary Investigations at the Court of Genoa, sharing the investigative hypotheses of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, ordered the execution of the precautionary measure of house arrest, at the same time ordering the seizure profit of 6 thousand euros as a direct crime of usury.
The operation is part of the greater action carried out by the Guardia di Finanza in contrasting usury which constitutes a hateful criminal practice that tends to obtain huge gains by exploiting the state of need of subjects in serious difficulty.
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