Hundreds of families in the #Czech Republic whose houses have been damaged or destroyed by the tornado are eligible for financial help…
BUT that money could be confiscated by bailiffs.
The country has a serious problem with bailiffs & private debt collectors...
BUT that money could be confiscated by bailiffs.
The country has a serious problem with bailiffs & private debt collectors...
In 2001, the Czech state created a system of private bailiffs who have been earning large amounts of money from indebted citizens.
The scam works like this...
The scam works like this...
Indebtedness usually starts from a small debt of that's the equivalent of a few euros.
Creditors would not inform the debtor about the debt, but they would pass it to a private debt collector.
The private debt collectors would then wait several years before they pounced.
Creditors would not inform the debtor about the debt, but they would pass it to a private debt collector.
The private debt collectors would then wait several years before they pounced.
Czech law allowed them to hike up the debt by exorbitant debt collecting charges, so that a debt of, say, the equivalent of 20 euros grew to tens of thousands of euros or more - and you could lose your house.
People did not learn that they had become victim of a debt collector until the bank told them that their personal bank account had been officially blocked - until they paid off their outstanding debt, which they could not do because their bank account had been blocked.
And this is common. According to this account, about 1 in 10 Czech citizens have had their accounts blocked, and most of their income confiscated by bailiffs in order to pay exorbitant fees of private debt collectors.
blisty.cz/art/104357-300…
blisty.cz/art/104357-300…
"Since the victim knows that they will never free themselves of debt, they start operating in the black economy, accepting informal payments for their work in cash only - if they can."
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