In the Novosibirsk region owe collectors raped – RBC

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In the Novosibirsk region initiated a criminal case on the fact of collectors attacks against owe. However, she said she had been sexually assaulted

In the city of Novosibirsk region Iskitim collectors made armed attack on the family of a woman who benefited from microcredit, but are not able to pay off the debt at the time, the website of the Prosecutor General of Russia. The attackers, according to investigators, was robbed and owe “committed to her sexual assault».

«According to the victim, the attackers stole a mobile phone and demanded the return of 240 kDa rubles for repayment of the loan (in 2015 she took advantage of the services of “money once”, received 5 thousand. rubles, but was unable to repay the debt). Then the attackers beat her husband and child owner of the apartment, and then made her sexual assault “, – said the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Investigating authorities have opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 162 of the Criminal Code (robbery committed with penetration into dwelling), a criminal investigation taken under control of the prosecutor’s office of Novosibirsk region.

The prosecutor’s office noted that the criminal case received “special public interest”. Earlier in March, Bloomberg in his analytical article described the Russian collection market as a “return to the Middle Ages».

Experts Agency concluded that borrowers of microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly faced with the violent methods of debt collection in a falling incomes. The problem has been actively discussed in the society after the Ulyanovsk manifold cast into the house firebombed for the debt in the amount of 4 thousand. Rub., As a result of the fire damaged 56-year-old and two year old child. The loan amount was small, but the interest on the loan is 10 times the size of the loan.

Bloomberg noted that collectors often put pressure on debtors tracking them in apartments, painting the walls in the hallways and private cars debtors and commit other illegal acts . As an example the case where a married couple from Novosibirsk confronted with messages from friends that the unknown pictures distributed with their small child and the alleged reports of readiness mother into prostitution to repay the loan. The family took a loan from a microfinance organization 15 thousand. Rubles, but the interest on the loan were for very heavy family.

As previously wrote RBC, according to the Joint Credit Bureau, overdue debts of Russian banks in 2015 increased by 48% – from 775 billion to 1.15 trillion rubles. And the largest share (62%) occupy the default cash loans – 709 billion rubles. In second place – credit card debt (21%) – 242 billion rubles. The third – a mortgage (11%) -. 132 billion rubles

The Russian government approved a new draft law on sewers, among the authors whose speaker of the Duma and the Federation Council, Sergei Naryshkin and Valentina Matviyenko. The bill already introduced in the Duma. The explanatory note to it also cited the facts “polubanditskoy” activities of collectors. “Cases of physical violence – news feeds are full of reports about the beating of citizens (sometimes even their pets) collectors. There are other cases – collectors painting the walls in the hallways, trying to illegally penetrate into the housing and remove the debtors assets to repay the overdue debt. And sometimes these actions committed against citizens who did not take the credit, “- the document says.