Incredible case of usury in Crete: They blackmailed, lived in villas and circulated in Porsches!

A 46-year-old from Heraklionknown by a nickname referring to a city in the Peloponnese, and two 30-year-old Albanianswere- according to Organized Crime Department of Cretes-the “hard core” of a criminal organization to which it is attributed that it had trapped in its nets usury world and cosmos.

Serious usury action It is alleged that two more detainees had developed (each for his own pocket), a 45-year-old from Heraklion and a 24-year-old who maintains a cafeteria in the eastern suburbs.

Executives of the Organized Crime Department claim that the massive case is “tied” and includes testimonies of victims, who were persuaded to talk about what they experienced in “Claws of predators” with Porsches, jaguars, villas, expensive clothes and businesses because simply as long as there are people in financial need who can not resort to lending to the banking system, usurers … drink blood!

«Every testimony is a painful story“, Commented authoritatively to Cretalive a valid police source. It is claimed that those who were forced to borrow from them for their own reasons, regretted the time and the moment as the borrowing was done in mafia terms, in a highly destructive context.

Each case was different, but in general for a loan of 5,000 euros, the interest could be up to 2,000 euros per month. If now there were delays in the payment of interest, black snake that ate them. Double and triple interest were paid, even per day.
An amount of 5,000 euros could skyrocket to 50,000 euros!

According to information received by Cretalive, there were people who fell into need for health reasons because they had to have an operation themselves or their children and borrowed on interest-bearing terms, “signing” their sentence. There are, as it is claimed, people who due to the pandemic, in order not to put a lock on their businesses (companies, shops, pharmacies, etc.) were also forced to borrow from those arrested, to save the situation, and now they are drowning from the noose of usury and of threats.

Sources say the pressure was so overwhelming that some had gone through the process of selling off their properties to repay their “lenders”.

The 46-year-old is a person that Η stones knows in Heraklion, both from various criminal cases and from his presence at night but also in gyms. Both Albanians, however, are not “newcomers” to the authorities. However, it is extremely impressive, but also questionable how these guys, virtually out of nowhere, managed to develop and “giantize” such a tough usurious action, as attributed to them by the Hellenic Police, in a Heraklion that “talked »From the way the threads moved to the lifestyle they followed in recent years. With … God the money, they are accused of eating flesh and making money to eat the hens from the unbearable interest.

The investigation of the Organized is assisted by SDOE with all that entails in terms of opening accounts and “dusting” financial data.

EL.AS: “There are others out there; we are here!”.

A high-ranking EL.AS officer commented to Cretalive that in the case file there are serious testimonies of victims who trusted the executives of the Organized and agreed to speak. But out there, there are others (they already know some of them) who are still silent in fear. “Now is the time to speak. A very serious effort is being made to “clean up” the landscape. It is in their hands. “We extend our hand with vigor to pull them to the light …” he urged meaningfully.

Today, those arrested are expected to be brought before the competent prosecutor’s office.