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11 April 2017 Wear, extortion, threats, assaults, sexual violence and drug dealing. A "family" criminal group that operated in the area of the Castelli Romani disarticulated by the Carabinieri of the Velletri company. Five arrested: 3 men and 2 women residing between Ariccia and Albano Laziale. These include husband, wife and 18-year-old son, who are subject to the obligation to submit to the judicial police.The investigation by the Carabinieri of the Velletri Company and Ariccia Station revealed that dozens of people had turned to the group for usurious loans to survive their economic difficulties and to meet their daily needs. Interest rates also reached 240% per year and for the 'believed recovery' the group would have resorted to threats, assaults for extortion and even sexual violence.
According to what was ascertained at the top of the association there was a 42-year-old from Ariccia, with several precedents, who was also held responsible for continued sexual violence against one of the victims and injuries against a man who would have fractured six ribs.
The man made use of his 44-year-old wife, now in prison, and his 18-year-old son subject to the obligation to present to the judicial police, as well as the other two arrested: a 57-year-old woman and a 31-year-old. Found a real accounting with the accounts of at least a part of the worn customers: 36 victims in the year 2013 (with revenues equal to over 41 thousand euros), 46 in 2014 (with revenues of approximately equal to 58 thousand euros), 70 in the 2015 (with revenues of 93 thousand euros) and 55 in 2016 (with revenues of over 77 thousand euros). Also ascertained supplies of cocaine with payment in installments that went to feed the usurer circuit. The victims, in most cases, were unemployed who resorted to loans to pay daily expenses: from medical visits to their children's school expenses.