Bizarre crimes in Hungary – charlatan extorts money from elderly people with Persian rugs

A charlatan tried to sell carpets to elderly people and a duo of criminals rob a jeweller and take HUF 4 million (€ 11,000) worth of jewels from the store. Also, there was a double murder in Kisláng. The suspect is a 26-year-old man who kills a couple.

Police reported, that in Budapest a swindler tried to extort money from elderly people with a trick. The Romanian man said that he was from Iran and that his carpet was a Persian rug. He was kind to his victims and even offered them a ride home in his car.

At first, the charlatan tried to offer the carpet for his victims free of charge, but when they arrived at the location of the elderly person, he immediately changed his behaviour.

He had always managed to force more money out of his victims than what the rug was worth. The charlatan was operating in district II of Budapest. One time he even tricked one of the elderly victims to walk with him to an ATM and once there,

the swindler pressed another zero on the machine and ran away with HUF 100,000 (€ 274) instead of HUF 10,000 (€ 27,4).

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The investigators of the Budapest Police Headquarters have managed to detain the charlatan and his helper back in November 2020 and the two Romanian men are now at the hands of the prosecutor’s office with six charges of fraud for the charlatan and one charge of assisting with the crime for the helper.