Dad, son nabbed for loansharking

(ANSA) - Taranto, October 24 - Carabinieri police on Monday arrested a father and son on suspicion of loansharking aggravated by the victimization of people in need.
    Investigators say Cosimo Damiano Surgo, 53, and 30-year-old son Pasquale lent money at 200% a year to eight businessmen living in Lecce and Taranto provinces in the southern Puglia region. They laundered the money using front men, some of whom have been charged with money-laundering and abetting in the investigation that launched in 2013 and that sees another 13 suspects probed.
    Surgo senior has a record as authorities in 2008 seized assets worth seven million euros from him. The son's record is clean.