Naples. Twenty people under investigation, each with a very specific role in the circuit of loan sharks of the “Stadera” linked to the Contini clan and controlled by 53-year-old Angelo Alfieri.
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Two brothers, a small businessman from the Poggioreale area and a doctor from Vomero, who for ten years had ended up in the web of loan sharks. Forced to always pay without ever managing to pay off the debt with interests that reached up to 100% monthly and in some cases even 200%.
Their detailed reports and then the telephone and environmental interceptions, coordinated by the DDA of Naples (PM Alessandra Converso, additional prosecutor Rosa Volpe) allowed the Carabinieri to collect sufficient evidence to close the investigations.
Culminating in a blitz carried out this morning by the Carabinieri following the precautionary order of the investigating judge Giovanni Vinciguerra, which involved 15 of the twenty suspects: 8 in prison (but one managed to escape) and 7 under house arrest.
The 216 pages of the precautionary order speak of threats. “I’ll break you on the ground… you could even have a dead man in your house.” The victims were summoned, even to a boxing gym, and threatened, even with weapons and baseball bats, when the agreed-upon installments for the repayment of the debt did not arrive.
The investigations also revealed, for example, that for a loan of 10 thousand euros, 30 thousand had to be repaid in 24 months: 13 thousand in the first 12 months and then another 17 thousand until the debt was paid off.
The interest rates initially applied by the gang were dizzying: requests that were close to 1000% were documented. These were impossible pressures to bear for the victims who in the end, however, managed to obtain significant reductions that were still well beyond what was permitted: in one case the request was 137,14% with even “non-repayable” installments in the event of failure to respect the repayment terms.
However, the debtor was unable to sustain the repayment of that economic burden and the gang decided to be more lenient: in the end, against a loan of 3500 euros, only 5900 were returned, for a total rate of 48,40%. But they were documented by the military Loans returned at rates of 188%, 205% and even higher, for small debts of a few thousand euros.
Rates that dropped, but always remained well above the average global effective rate established by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, when the loans were in the order of several tens of thousands of euros.
The investigations revealed that the roles of leaders and promoters and/or organizers included Giovanni Alfiero, Costantino Bacioterracino, Ciro Botta (already investigated in the inquiry into the management of the services of theSt. John Bosco Hospital by the Contini clan), Raffaele Cacciapuoti, Massimo Cerrato known as “Massimino” or “Massimino the auto electrician”, Vincenzo Cosenza, Mirko Davide known as “o Pop”, Fiore Ferraro, Adele Maraucci and Elisabetta Visco.
They were the ones who provided the loans at usurious rates, making use of the intermediation of Angelo Alfieri, who had the role of organizer and took care of finding customers, as well as the physical delivery of the money lent and the collection of the installments, the others intervening both in the negotiation phase and in the recovery of the sums of money lent.
List of suspects
- ALFIERI Alessia, Naples 1994, INVESTIGATED
- ALFIERI Angelo, Naples 1971, PRISON
- ALFIERI Giovanni, known as “Gianni”, Naples 1964, PRISON
- BACIOTERRACINO Costantino, Naples,1956, PRISON
- BACIOTERRACINO Nunzio, Naples 1984, INVESTIGATED
- BOTTA Ciro, Naples 1967, INVESTIGATED
- BOVE Pietro, Naples 1964, INVESTIGATED
- CACCIAPUOTI Raffaele, Mugnano of Naples 1988, ARRESTS HOME CARE
- CERRATO Massimo, known as “Massimino” or “Massimino the auto electrician”, Naples 1972, HOUSE ARREST
- CIMMINIELLO Annunziata, Naples 1988, INVESTIGATED
- CIMMINIELLO Giuseppe, Naples 1990, HOUSE ARREST
- CIMMINIELLO Leonardo, Naples 1995, HOUSE ARREST
- FIVE Salvatore, known as “Totoriello”, Naples 1966, PRISON
- COSENZA Francesco, Naples 1970, PRISON
- COSENZA Vincenzo, known as “o Muratore”, Naples 1991, HOUSE ARREST
- DAVIDE Mirko, known as “o' Pop”, Naples 1993, PRISON
- FERRARO Fiore, Naples 1963, PRISON
- FERRARO Lucia, Naples.1962, HOUSE ARREST
- MUSELLA Fabio,Naples 1983, PRISON
- VISCO Elisabetta, known as “Elisa”, Naples 1980, HOUSE ARREST
Article published on 24 September 2024 - 15:09
