He would lend money at usury rates. TO Catania They were assets worth 55 thousand euros were seized to the administrator of one society which operates in clothing trade sector. According to financial police – who conducted the investigations – at different times the man would have lent money at usury rates to an active sales agent also in the clothing sector and in state of financial difficulty. To avoid having the illicit origin of the money discovered, the money obtained at usurious rates it would have been employed in business economic and entrepreneurial attributable to the two people under investigation.
According to what was ascertained by the financial police, in the face of a first loan of 20 thousand euros would have been given over the course of nine months a sum of approximately 44 thousand euroswith a interest rate equal to 157 percent annually et al 210 percent monthly. On the occasion of a second loan, in the amount of 10 thousand euros – with a initial withholding by way of interests of 3750 euros – a would have been obtained total reimbursement of 12,500 euros over nine months, with a rate of over 62 percent annually and of the83 percent monthly. The financial police say that despite the debtor had then paid in total approximately 56,500 eurosthe remaining debt for the loans would be renegotiated unilaterally, with the claim for a further sumfor a total amount equal to 66 thousand euros.
According to what the financial police ascertained, the usury mechanism would also have led to thedisbursement of a third loan of 13 thousand euros through the stipulation of a debt recognition writing for a amount of 73 thousand eurosthe release of 60 monthly bills of the amount of One thousand Euro and the release of one surety on the part of partner of the victimowner of a property in Aci Sant’Antonioin the province of Catania. The director of the clothing company would then obtained a sample of clothing items of the value of 13 thousand euros For pay off the last loan disbursed. Furthermore, says the financial police, to make up for the delay in payments by the victim would have appealed to the judicial institutions of injunction he was born in foreclosure of the property owned by its guarantor.
