Usury in Rome, arrested former boxing champion

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 13 - The 29-year-old former professional boxer FrancescoLomasto, former Italian superweight champion, residing in Rome, has been arrested in recent days by carabinieri who believe him to be responsible for wear and tear in the face of an entrepreneur . Lomasto is now under house arrest. Icarabinieri of the Eur Company operating unit arrested him on Friday in Piazzale Nervi, while he received two valuable watches worth over 33 thousand euros, from an entrepreneur who - according to the investigators - was paying part of a loan that had been granted with interests well beyond the law. The victim, an entrepreneur with some furniture sales points, had received, in 2018, in several installments, a "firm" loan of the sum of 250 thousand euros with a 10% tax to be paid monthly. So far, the entrepreneur had paid around 350 thousand euros as payment of the interest accrued over time and the requests would not have been interrupted even with the coronavirus emergency.