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Police target loansharking as businesses reel from lockdown

by Associated Press
| June 17, 2020 12:03 AM

ROME (AP) — Police in Rome say they have dismantled a brutal loansharking ring just as many shopkeepers are desperate for liquidity after being closed for weeks during COVID-19 lockdown. In all, 20 alleged mobsters and suspected accomplices were arrested.

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