Caserta. In the grip of the most ruthless Camorra and usury: a Caserta businessman borrowed 1,2 million euros and had to pay them back with 500 thousand euros in interest. This is what emerged in the trial currently underway in Caserta against six defendants, including members of the Casalesi clan. In six years, between 2004 and 2010, he paid monthly interest of between 5 and 10% on the loan, the businessman from Aversa ended up in a circle of loan sharks and then finally in the presence of Nicola Schiavone, son of the Casalesi clan boss Francesco “Sandokan” Schiavone, who ordered him to pay “otherwise I’ll cut your head open” the boss told him. Six people are accused in the trial currently underway, including Casalesi members Gabriele Brusciano, right-hand man of the former head of the clan’s massacre wing Giuseppe Setola. Nicola Schiavone, son of Sandokan, a collaborator of justice since July, said in the abbreviated trial in which he has already been convicted that "the Casalesi do not practice usury". But something completely different emerges from the documents that the judges are evaluating, so much so that Schiavone himself has accused his accused associates of being usurers of the clan, among them the 58-year-old Ferdinando Graziano, indicated as one of the biggest loan sharks of the Caserta clan, who pawned Michele Zagaria's money. The repentant Schiavone jr will have to testify at the trial that will be held on December 20, born from the complaint of the victim entrepreneur, his wife and his father-in-law - all assisted by the lawyer Gianni Zara - and which sees the public prosecutor of the DDA Graziella Arlomede on the prosecution bench.
Article published on November 27, 2018 - 18:57