They lend him 3,000 euros and threaten to beat him if he doesn’t pay 20,000 euros.

First Group Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (UDYCO) Alicante Provincial Police Station teams launched an investigation upon the complaint of the victim who had been under surveillance for months. Threats to your physical integrity by another man who lent him money.

According to what the victim told agents, in early August 2022, he requested money from a man dedicated to giving loans. This man lent him 3,000 euros, but took advantage of the victim’s unstable situation to charge exorbitant interest on the loan. In exchange for leaving him 3000 euros I would have to return 5,000 euros within a month. He knew he couldn’t pay off his debt so quickly.

When the agreed period for repayment of the loan expired and the debt was not paid by the victim, the lender offered: You will have to pay 1,500 euros more for each month you are lateThe victim accepted because he could not pay in any other way.

Eight payments of 1,500 euros

Given the impossibility of the complainant to pay off his debt so quickly, the victim paid up to eight times the payment of his debt, extending it month by month to 1,500 euros; this is in total 12,000 euros.

The perpetrator, knowing that the victim cannot pay the debt, ultimatum By coercing and threatening the victim by telling him that he would give the victim a few months to pay off his debt, but that he would eventually have to pay him 20,000 euros to do so. “ruin his life” or “beat him up” If the requested payment is not made or the situation is reported to the police.

The victim filed a complaint and UDYCO agents pinpointed the perpetrator, who had a history of other crimes and was arrested for extortion. The 31-year-old prisoner was placed at the disposal of the Alicante guard court.