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Torre Annunziata – Exasperated he denounces his loan sharks, 5 people arrested
Rates of 240% per year. During the investigation the police also seized some cocaine.
courier thereof.
This morning, in execution of a precautionary order issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Torre Annunziata, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the agents of the State Police of the PS Commissariat of Torre del Greco, assisted by the Flying Squad of the Naples Police Headquarters, the PS Police Station of Torre Annunziata, the Campania Crime Prevention Department and canine units, arrested 5 people, of which 3 were subject to precautionary custody in prison and 2 to house arrest , as well as notifying the measure of precautionary custody in prison against 2 other people already detained in prison for other reasons and notifying the precautionary measure of the obligation to report to the Judicial Police to 2 other people, all seriously suspected, for various reasons , crimes of usury, extortion and drug dealing.
The investigations, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and conducted by the Investigative Team of the Police Station of Torre del Greco, arose from the declarations of a person who was a victim of usury and made it possible to ascertain several episodes of usury committed to the detriment of the same by a plurality of subjects,
each operating independently of the others, to which the victim had turned starting from 2023 in an attempt to deal with his economic difficulties.
The investigative findings, also corroborated by telephone interceptions and objective evidence acquired through targeted surveillance, made it possible to ascertain how the victim, in a moment of economic difficulty, had found the apparent availability of acquaintances who had initially offered to lend her money and then demand the monthly repayment of disproportionate sums of money compared to the initial debt, applying high usurious rates which in some cases reached the threshold of 240% per year.
During the investigations, it emerged that some of the suspects, involved in the crime scene operating in the municipality of Torre Annunziata, although they were in prison at the time of the events, had agreed to supply narcotic substances such as cocaine to the drug dealing centers of the Salerno.
During the investigations, the Judicial Police found the results of the technical activities, proceeding with the seizure of cocaine and the arrest of a person appointed as its courier.
Friday 10 May 2024 – 11.47 am | © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
