(1) Whosoever exploits the predicament, lack of experience, lack of judgment or substantial weakness of will of another by allowing material benefits to be promised or granted to himself or a third person
1. for the rent of living space or additional services connected therewith;
2. for the granting of credit;
3. for any other service; or
4. for the procurement of one of the previously indicated services,
which are in striking disproportion to the value of the service or its procurement, shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine. If more than one person contribute as providers of benefits, procurers or in other ways, and if the result is thereby a striking disproportion between the sum of the material benefits and the value of the services the 1st sentence above shall apply to each of the persons who exploits the predicament or other weakness of the other for himself or a third person in order to obtain excessive material benefits.
(2) In especially serious cases the penalty shall be imprisonment from six months to ten years. An especially serious case typically occurs if the offender
1. by the offence places the other in financial hardship;
2. commits the offence on a commercial basis;
3. accepts promissory notes representing usurious material benefits.