A GRANDMOTHER aged 78 was dubbed “Joan the Loan” after fleecing hard-up victims in a Mafia-style lending racket. Fionda, also nicknamed “The Mafia”, lent £33,500 at staggering interest rates of up to 332 per cent. Her enforcers would order those who could not pay to hand over their bank and benefit cards and pin numbers before withdrawing their cash at the Post Office. She and three other women became known in Horfield Post Office as “The Mafia” because they would often arrive to withdraw other people’s money.
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