Carlo Francesco Procopi leaves house arrest. The Criminal Court of Catanzaro ordered the replacement of the precautionary measure against him with the obligation to reside in the municipality, marking a new step in the judicial affair which in April 2025 had had great resonance in the Calabrian capital.
Procopi was arrested on 11 April 2025 as part of the investigation which led to the execution of three precautionary measures by the Catanzaro Financial Police. The investigation concerned an alleged system of loans at rates deemed usurious and involved, in various capacities, the crimes of usury, abusive exercise of financial activity, extortion and self-laundering.
According to the prosecution’s approach, at the center of the investigations there would have been loans granted to people in economic difficulty, with interests which in one of the episodes reconstructed by the investigators would have reached particularly high percentages. Among the people listed as victims at the time were entrepreneurs and also a professional footballer.
An accusatory reconstruction on which Procopi, defended by the lawyers Salvatore Staiano and Antonio Lomonaco, already in the days immediately following the arrest, had chosen not to avail himself of the right not to answer: during the interrogation before the investigating judge he had in fact answered the questions and provided his own version of the facts, assisted by his defenders.
Initially, precautionary custody in prison was ordered for Procopi. A first important change in the precautionary framework arrived in December 2025, when the Court of Catanzaro, accepting the request made by the lawyers Salvatore Staiano and Antonio Lomonaco, replaced prison with house arrest.
Now comes further relief. The Court, in light of the new assessment of the precautionary needs, has in fact ordered the cessation of house arrest and the application of only the obligation to reside in the municipality.
Procopi, therefore, after prison and the subsequent transition to house arrest, is released again with the requirement to respect the residence obligation established by the judicial authority.
The procedural matter continues and the charges raised against him will have to be examined in the competent judicial offices, in compliance with the constitutional principle of presumption of innocence until a final sentence is reached.