Garda inspector says ‘inflated’ drug debts can range up to hundreds of thousand of euro
“What we want victims to do is before they pay anyone, look at their options. The consequences of paying may be further demands. A lot of these people can’t pay their way out of it,” he said.
It is often the parents or grandparents who are threatened by criminals to pay off the debts of a family member, he said. Where people were unable to pay, criminals sought “payment in kind”, such as the person having to store drugs for the gang in their home, he said. If people who were being threatened over debts came forward to gardaí the cases would be investigated thoroughly, he said.
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