Two moneylenders were lending money at rates of over 300%

Usury and extortion continued and aggravated by the mafia method.

These are the charges that two people arrested in an operation by the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate in the provinces of Foggia and Pesaro-Urbino have to answer.

According to investigators, they lent money with interest rates above 300%.

The investigations, coordinated by the Da of Bari, lasted over a year.

In these hours, searches and seizures were carried out against other subjects as well.

(Unioneonline / D)