The businessman who was arrested on Saturday August 24 in Larissa for usury and weapons possession was remanded in custody after his confession to the investigator.
After a long testimony that started in the morning and ended at noon, the businessman was taken to the Larissa Detention Center as he was deemed remanded in custody with the agreement of the interrogator and prosecutor, reported larissanet.gr.
The businessman in his apology allegedly denied the accusations and spoke of “collaboration” with the complainant.
Businessman borrowed 50,000 euros and paid over 300,000
Subsequently, in the next period up to the spring of 2021, the victim, with the aim of expanding his business activity, borrowed from the perpetrator, initially the sum of 15,000 euros and then 30,000 euros, with new usurious terms, specifically, with a monthly payment as an interest rate of 10% on the money he lent him, i.e. at the beginning 2,000 euros and then 5,000 euros every month. The victim paid the perpetrator, in the following months, a total of 39,000 euros as interest.
Then, according to the allegations, in the following period up to May of this year (2024), due to the inability of the victim to pay the money demanded by the offender as interest and as the amount owed, the offender, with repeated verbal threats against his physical integrity, forced the victim to the following acts:
to purchase two vehicles, for use by the perpetrator and his friend, paying part of their monetary value
to insure the perpetrator’s wife in his business, without working there, by paying the insurance contributions
to pay the offender in installments in their meetings, various sums of money
to lease () a total of 5 I.X.E. cars, which were used by the perpetrator and his friend, paying various sums of money, while in addition, he paid a sum of money, as a debt attributed to him by a company for damages caused to one of the rented cars.
The perpetrator, from this illegal action, obtained from the victim the total sum of 231,000 euros in cash, as well as the sum of 72,333 euros, derived from the provision of services, through the leasing of the above-mentioned I.X.E cars etc.
An organized police operation followed, in the context of which, in the early hours of yesterday, Saturday in the city of Larissa, in a prearranged meeting, the perpetrator received from the victim the pre-marked sum of 1,000 euros, as part of the required money (interest) that he managed to collect the victim was then immobilized by the police.
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