VIDEO: Hungarian drug dealer on Europol top wanted list caught

A 35-year-old member of a drug-trafficking ring on Europol’s list of Europe’s 54 most wanted criminals in 2022 has turned himself in, according to a press release on police.hu posted on Friday.

The man turned up at a Debrecen police station, in eastern Hungary, on Wednesday and was taken into custody. A Debrecen court ordered his pre-trial detention the same day.

The press release said István V Sándor and his associates, including the man who turned himself in, András Cs, operated sophisticated equipment to cultivate and process cannabis in Bács-Kiskun County, central-southern Hungary, in 2020 and 2021, as part of 300 million forint (EUR 763,000) operation.

On May 21, 2021 police raided the premises and seized 165kg of marijuana and cocaine, and subsequently 380 million forints-worth of assets were also seized from the members of the ring. Investigators succeeded in identifying all seven of its members. Two of them were quickly captured in Hungary, while European and international arrest warrants were issued against five members on the run.