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“Money, money!” – two young robbers attacked foreigners in Budapest

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That, of course, does not mean that Budapest is not safe for travellers or tourists. But it happened that two weeks ago, two young Hungarians tried to get into apartments left open, during which they attacked a foreign woman in the heart of the Hungarian capital. Below you can read the details.

Apartments left open

According to 24.hu, two young Hungarian citizens tried to steal from apartments rented by foreign individuals in Budapest. The residents made them leave, but they tried to return violently. The Budapest police department told the media outlet that the crime happened two weeks ago. First, a tenant managed to drive the young robbers away and locked his door. The muggers tried to push it back, but they were not successful.

However, the apartment next door was also left open, so they went inside.

A foreign woman living there was shocked but managed to drive the robbers away. But the muggers were more persistent and went inside again after pushing back the door. 

15-year-old thief beating a foreign woman

They shouted “Money, money!” and the terrified woman left her apartment. The perpetrators collected her laptop, tablet and cell phone worth 1 million HUF (EUR 2,500). The woman went after them and managed to get back her computer, but the younger boy slapped her. She asked helped from the neighbours, who immediately warned the police of Ferencváros (Budapest 9th district). The officers caught the perpetrators not far from the crime scene.

Ferenc T. (23) and his 15-year-old “partner” were interrogated for robbery and theft. They are currently in pre-trial detention.

In 2018, a 12-year-old girl tried to steal

That is, unfortunately, not the first time that underage people stole or tried to steal from foreigners. In 2018, a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old girl stole from a foreign citizen in Budapest fast food restaurant. Interestingly, they used violence to steal the foreigner’s cell phone. First, the 14-year-old girl stepped near an Italian citizen and asked about the time in English. The victim showed the time on her watch. But the perpetrator told her she wanted to see the time on her phone. The moment she showed it, they tried to tear it from her. Since they were unsuccessful,

the 14-year-old girl pushed the victim to a column and started strangling her.

Finally, they could get the cell phone – index.hu reported. 

Some friends of the victim ran after the thieves and retrieved the phone. The public prosecutor of Budapest asked for a prison sentence.

Here is a video about what happened:

A Hungarian policeman robbed a bank!

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The Hungarian policeman who was arrested on Wednesday for robbing a bank in Pécs confessed to the robbery, the Central Investigating Prosecutor’s Office told MTI on Thursday.

Bank-robbing policeman

As Magyar Hang reported, the Kaposvár Regional Investigating Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a crime of violence against property, official and public security. On Wednesday, the suspected police officer was arrested. The man was questioned as a suspect and charged with two counts of robbery, the misuse of office, and the misuse of firearms and ammunition.

According to the available data, as reported by Pécs Aktuál, on 12 May 2020, at around 3 pm, the man entered a bank in Pécs and, with the help of a handgun (or what looked like a handgun), forced the employees to hand over the cash in the cash register.

The perpetrator obtained around HUF 5.7 million (~EUR 15,000) and then fled the scene.

The police then showed the bank’s indoor CCTV footage to the public, showing the perpetrator’s face when he pulled off his mask for a few seconds, as 168 reported. Witnesses described the perpetrator as a calm, communicative, intelligent man with a good sense of place.

Illegal behaviour

Subsequently, in November 2020, the man abused his position in the police registration system and deliberately searched for the case file of the robbery and downloaded documents from it in order to illegally obtain information about the status of the investigation.

According to Magyar Hang, the Prosecutor General’s Office also said that the policeman had taken his service handgun and the 6 rounds of ammunition he had been issued from his duty station without permission and kept them in his possession.

Second time

As we can read in Pécs Aktuál’s article, the Prosecutor General’s Office also shared that, according to a well-founded suspicion, the man had also committed a robbery in the same bank in November 2019, but he did not admit to this crime during his interrogation.

The Prosecutor’s Office proposes the arrest of the policeman. The Military Council of the Kaposvár Court will decide on the coercive measure on Friday.

The policeman is an investigator in the Economic Protection Department in Pécs.

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Hungary could lose EU resources if it refuses to join EPPO, says MEP Ujhelyi

European Union resources could remain frozen as long as Hungary refuses to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi said on Tuesday.

Ujhelyi said in a statement that MEPs from several countries were preparing a proposal to freeze EU resources if Hungary does not join the EPPO. If the proposal is approved, then decision-makers in Brussels will not release support currently held back from Hungary unless the Hungarian government offers sufficient guarantees about the protection of these resources, including joining the EPPO, he added.

“This will not pose a problem if Péter Marki-Zay forms the next government because the united opposition have made it clear that they intend to act in this manner. Fidesz, however, continues to rigidly reject cooperation with the European prosecutor authority,”

he said.

Ujhelyi said Fidesz’s refusal was not based on principles or to protect national sovereignty but simply because “they hope that this way they can get away with stealing EU support without being called to account for it”.

If Fidesz remains in power, this will certainly remain unchanged, Ujhelyi said. However,

if the opposition can form government, then Hungary will join the EPPO and can draw down all the EU support allocated, he added.

As we wrote last year, the opposition Socialists called on the government to have Hungary join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), details HERE.

As we wrote in February, Hungary’s Chief Public Prosecutor Péter Polt and Ville Itala, Director-General of OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud body, signed a working agreement on further strengthening the two organisations’ professional cooperation along the lines of common goals and interests. Details HERE.

Hungarian criminal fled to France and criminal gang robs foreigners – VIDEOS

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These past few days have been quite busy for the police: a Hungarian man suspected of sexual assault and trafficking was caught in France, while two young girls robbed a foreigner in Budapest.

Hungarian criminal taken back to Hungary from France

As the Budapest Police Headquarters announced on Sunday, a man who is suspected of forcing a woman into prostitution in Budapest last year was recently brought home from France. According to the data of the investigation, Róbert H. met the 28-year-old woman with whom he moved into an apartment in Kőbánya in May 2021. Shortly afterwards, he forced the woman to use drugs and forced her into prostitution, then took her money. The police added that the woman finally asked the police for help in July 2021, after which an arrest warrant was issued for the man.

According to the statement of the police, Róbert H. fled to France where he was arrested by local police on the basis of a wanted list. He was recently brought back to Hungary where he was handed over to the police in the capital.

Investigators of the Budapest Police Headquarters XXII. District Police Station detained 28-year-old Róbert H. on suspicion of sexual violence, human trafficking, and forced labour and recommended his arrest, which was ordered by the court on 9 February.

Two young criminals robbed a foreigner

Another criminal act involved two young girls who robbed a foreigner of his phone. According to the indictment, the defendants – girls aged 12 and 14 – forcibly obtained a mobile phone on the evening of 4 October 2018. In a fast-food restaurant in district V, the 14-year-old girl approached an Italian citizen waiting at the cashier and asked for the time in English.

As ugyeszseg.hu wrote, the victim showed her his watch, but the girl told him that she wanted to check the time on his phone. The victim took out his mobile phone from his pocket and showed it to her. Upon this, the young girl grabbed the man’s hand and tried to twist his wrist in order to get the phone.

The victim refused to let go of the phone, so the 12-year-old girl also approached and tried to rip the phone out of the man’s hand.

Because they could not get the phone out of his hand, they used their combined strength to push the victim against a nearby pole, and the 14-year-old defendant began to squeeze the victim’s neck.

As a result, the girls eventually got the phone, and the 14-year-old perpetrator ran out of the restaurant with it, followed by the victim. As ugyeszseg.hu reported, the 12-year-old girl grabbed the neck of the victim’s sweatshirt on the way out, restraining him. The victim began shouting, and his companions, who were also in the restaurant, noticed the robbery and ran after the 14-year-old girl, who threw the phone on the floor.

According to ugyeszseg.hu,

the Juvenile Criminal Division of Budapest I. and XII. District Prosecutor’s Office has indicted the two girls for the crime of robbery committed as accomplices. The prosecutor’s office is proposing that the younger girl be placed in a correctional institution and her partner be sentenced to juvenile imprisonment.

The footage below shows the defendants taking the victim’s mobile phone and running outside, while one of them pulls back the victim who is chasing her partner.

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Hungarian Prosecutor’s Office and EU’s OLAF sign working agreement

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Hungary’s Chief Public Prosecutor Péter Polt and Ville Itala, Director-General of OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud body, signed a working agreement on further strengthening the two organisations’ professional cooperation along the lines of common goals and interests, the Prosecutor’s Office said on Friday.

The agreement is aimed at formalising the “excellent cooperation between the two organisations”, it said in a statement.

The agreement was prepared by Polt and Itala during their meeting in Budapest on January 31. At their meeting they reaffirmed that their cooperation and an effective exchange of information on the misuse of EU funds remain a priority.

The agreement defines mutual information exchange and operative assistance as the most important areas of cooperation and will allow extended opportunities of joint trainings and technical assistance.

The Prosecutor’s Office noted that according to OLAF’s 2020 annual report, Hungary has filed indictments in 67 percent of the cases investigated by OLAF, close to twice the European Union average of 37 percent.

It also noted that the number of cases recommended by OLAF for investigation had dropped gradually from 10 in 2016 to 6 in 2017, 4 in 2018, 3 in 2019 and 2 each in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

Hungary is not a member of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), but in April 2021, the Prosecution Service of Hungary — as the first and only one among the non-participating countries — concluded a working arrangement with the EPPO for the purpose of joint operation.

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Hungarian billionaire murdered by gangsters in his castle

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In the summer of 2020, a billionaire suspiciously died in a fire in Bár. By now, the truth has been revealed: gangsters were the ones who took advantage of his alcohol addiction to get their hands on the man’s assets, and then they murdered him.

According to Blikk.hu, the man, who had made his fortune in the non-ferrous metals trade, was set up by a group of people to take advantage of his alcohol addiction and steal all his wealth. The children of the businessman repeatedly asked the Budapest and Mohács police for help, but to no avail. If the police had given them attention, István M. might still be alive and might have been rescued from the gang. The billionaire man from Budapest burned to death in the Fehér Castle near Bár in Baranya County.

The story

According to 444.hu, the owner of the Castle in Bár is billionaire István M., in his sixties, who lived in district 12 of Budapest. An alcoholic man in need of psychiatric treatment, he lived alone in his villa, but in the spring of 2020, bald, large men with BMWs and Audis started to visit his house. István M. essentially disappeared and was nowhere to be seen while people in the area said that someone was having big parties at his house.

The man was also known to have dealt with prostitutes. The gangster gang got information about István’s lifestyle from these women.

As Privátkopó.hu reported,

the man himself had the feeling that one of the women had put substances in his food that made him feel sick and took advantage of this by stealing from him several times. It is important to note that the sibling of this girl is a senior member of staff at the Counter-Terrorism Centre (Terrorelhárítási Központ, TEK).

The gang members, having become the billionaire’s housemates, did everything they could to isolate him from his family and the outside world, making sure he was completely under their influence. They also managed to take control of István M.’s company and steal everything from his business.

When one of the man’s daughters tried to get into her father’s house, she was refused entry to the villa where she was, in fact, registered. The daughter called the District 12 Police Station where

she was told that she was not allowed to enter on “superior orders” and was advised to file a complaint at the police station. She wanted to do so the next day but was not allowed to file the report.

The daughters of the businessman had to watch their father lose 35-40 kilograms in two years, his hair and teeth fell out, and his physical and mental state deteriorated. This led to suspicions that he had been drugged. Suddenly, in August 2020, family members were informed that István M. had died in a fire in his castle.

Daughters asked police to help multiple times

As we can read in Blikk.hu’s article, the daughters of the murdered billionaire had asked the police multiple times before the tragedy to help because their father was in danger. However, nothing ever happened. Despite the women’s plea, the Kaposvár Regional Investigating Prosecutor’s Office found no evidence of complicity in the case of the murdered István M. and quickly closed the investigation. The National Police Headquarters (Országos Rendőrfőkapitányság, ORFK) has not yet revealed whether an investigation has been launched at the police station.

Updates

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The two men suspected of manslaughter. Source: police.hu

In the early hours of 8 February 2022, the investigators of the Baranya County Police Headquarters detained a 49-year-old man and his 51-year-old partner who are under criminal supervision, suspected of the manslaughter in Bár,

police.hu wrote.

According to well-founded suspicion, the two men followed the victim from the early spring of 2020 in order to obtain his property and then kill him. After killing their victim in the early hours of 10 August 2020,

they set fire to the man’s apartment to cover their tracks and conceal their crime.

The two men had already come to the attention of the police in connection with the crime, and during the monthslong, thorough investigation, the police obtained enough evidence to initiate the arrest of the two suspects at the prosecutor’s office.

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Opposition DK files charges of misconduct in former state secretary Völner case

The Democratic Coalition (DK) has filed a report on suspected misconduct of duties concerning the case of Pál Völner, former justice ministry state secretary, who is under investigation for alleged bribery and other crimes, Balázs Barkóczi, the opposition party’s spokesman, said on Monday.

Völner resigned from his post a month ago. Hungary’s public prosecutor afterwards initiated the suspension of Völner’s immunity so he could defend himself against charges of having received sums of 2-5 million forints (EUR 5,500-13,700) from the president of the branch of bailiffs over a sustained period of time.

Parliament lifted his immunity in a vote on December 14.

Barkóczi told an online press conference that Völner had not been taken into pre-trial detention or home arrest which he said “raises the possibility of exerting political influence”.

“The prosecutor’s office has enabled Völner to obstruct the investigation by removing evidence and possibly influencing witnesses for over a month,”

the spokesman said. He called it “inexplicable” that Volner, a lawmaker of ruling Fidesz, is still at large “while he has failed to either testify or cooperate with the authorities, and has not answered questions or showed the slightest sign of remorse”.

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Opposition to annul the Constitution at the stroke of a pen?

The chief public prosecutor and all other prosecutors will fulfil their obligations stemming from Hungary’s constitution and other rules of law under all circumstances, the public prosecutor’s office said in reaction to the open letter Tamás Sulyok, the president of Hungary’s Constitutional Court, published on Tuesday.
 
Sulyok asked Hungary’s head of state, the prime minister and speaker of parliament to ensure that the various branches of power should take effective measures and provide appropriate guarantees for the long-term operations of the Constitutional Court, a basic pillar of democracy governed by the rule of law, in line with the constitutional order.
 
The prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday Péter Polt, its head, and the prosecutors’ offices “will protect constitutional order, as well as the citizens’ rights and security” in cooperation with the Constitutional Court and other constitutional organisations.
 
 
Sulyok published the letter in response to
 
growing political “perceptions” that Hungary’s consitution could be “annulled at the stroke of a pen” and the court dissolved in the event of a change of government after next spring’s general election.
 
The views voiced by certain political parties and supported by the intellectual spheres that sympathise with them can be considered “direct and serious attacks on the rule of law and democracy, and are completely unacceptable in a democracy governed by the rule of law”, he wrote.
 
“The Constitutional Court exercises constitutional control over all branches of power but the legislative and executive branches are obliged to ensure its sound functioning together,”
 
Sulyok wrote.
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Opposition called on Justice Minister Judit Varga to resign – update

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As we wrote today, Pál Völner, the state secretary of the ministry of justice, has resigned after the chief prosecutor’s office asked parliament to lift his immunity so he can defend himself against charges of receiving bribes on a regular basis.

In response, at a joint press conference opposition politicians called on Justice Minister Judit Varga to resign.

Parbeszed deputy group leader Olivio Kocsis-Cake called the affair “the most serious corruption scandal of the government”, saying that it involved a state secretary who “had ordered the surveillance of persons”.

“Varga’s role should also be assessed because it was her who authorised the state secretary’s actions,” he said.

Socialist deputy group leader Tamás Harangozó said

the case demonstrated “how thoroughly corrupt [ruling] Fidesz’s regime” was.

Jobbik lawmaker Tibor Nunkovics called on Völner to resign from his mandate in parliament and DK lawmaker László Szakács described Volner “as a key player in the Pegasus affair”.

Momentum spokesman Márton Tompos and LMP group leader Lóránt László Keresztes said

Varga had to resign because she should take responsibility for what had happened in the ministry.

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UPDATE

Ruling Fidesz responded as saying that the opposition left “showed no sign of being ready to clarify the corruption surrounding the sale of Budapest City Hall and other cases of corruption”. It said in a statement that Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, “had been hiding away” for weeks from clearing the affair while “it has become clear that there is a mafia operating in the City Hall”.

The ruling parties will support lifting Völner’s parliamentary immunity because the state secretary “has to clear himself”, Fidesz said.

Karácsony said a screening committee had to be set up in order to assess the systemic problems in connection with the “often cruel and inhumane” execution of claims included in court decisions. Karácsony, who is also co-leader of Párbeszéd, said on Facebook that

the committee must also reveal if there were any political ties involved in the case and assess the reasons behind “the outstandingly large number of forced evictions under the Orbán government”.

PM Orbán to cement his chief prosecutor even after the 2022 elections?

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The prime minister’s chief of staff on Thursday said that the government had submitted a proposal to “clarify” regulations regarding the public prosecutor’s election and removal from office.
 
Gergely Gulyás slammed “fake news spreading in the left-wing press”, saying that under Hungarian law, the public prosecutor was elected with a two-thirds majority. The government’s recently submitted amendment proposal is a “clarification”, saying that the prosecutor’s removal should also require two-thirds majority, Gulyás said.

Those regulations pertain to all those in public office, he said. “The Constitution clearly states that public dignitaries can be stripped of their office with the same majority that had vested it in them,” he said.
 


The opposition Democratic Coalition said on Thursday that Péter Polt, the chief prosecutor, would be immediately replaced after a change of government. DK lawmaker and group spokesman Zoltán Varga said in a statement that a new government led by DK prime ministerial candidate Klára Dobrev would by all means fire “the former member of [ruling] Fidesz from the head of the prosecutor’s office”. He said the amendment proposal submitted by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán revealed that Fidesz was afraid of the strengthening of the opposition. “If they had nothing to fear … there would be no reason for them to cement Péter Polt in his position,” he added.
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Agressor attacks man on the street twice – He attempts murder on the second time

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The Újpest police have recently closed the case of a man, who at first attacked another man with bare hands, but months later, he threatened the victim’s life.

The Budapest Police Headquarters of District IV. Prosecuted the perpetrator for causing serious bodily harm and attempted homicide. The criminal attacked one of his acquaintances due to bad relationship between them in December 2019, but he was not finished yet.

In July 2020 he attempted an attack against the same man, this time however, he used a knife and tried to kill his acquaintance.

According to police.hu, during the first attack in 2019, the then 28-year-old Sándor K. punched and kicked his acquaintance several times at the district IV. market hall.

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A few days later the authorities have caught the perpetrator who said to them that victim always treated him with disrespect and the attacker blames him for his problems.

His rage had not been extinguished entirely and the man attacked his acquaintance some months later in July 2020, but this time, the attack was more serious. The perpetrator used a knife and have managed to cut and stab his victim several times. The police have detained him the same day and when asked he said that his life went awry due to the victim.

When the victim was interrogated, he said that he had no relation to his attacker whatsoever.

The attacker is currently under detention by the authorities and his case was forwarded to the prosecutor’s office.

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Two girls attempted to rape their peer with an iron rod in Ózd, Hungary

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The two girls attacked and bullied their victim out of jealousy for more than two hours. The perpetrators were 16 and 18 years old and came across their victim on the street.

The perpetrators, a 16 and 18-year-old girl, were drinking away near the railway station in Ózd because the younger girl had some relationship issues. This was when two other girls came across them, one of them being the ex-girlfriend of the 16-year-old perpetrators’ boyfriend.

According to Origo, the victim, even though their relationship ended, was still in a good relationship and keeping in touch with a boy who happened to be the current boyfriend of the 16-year-old perpetrator. The relationship issues the girl was having were caused by the victim as she was jealous of the ex-girlfriend and the boy still having a good relationship.

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Having been drinking and full of rage due to being jealous, the 16-year-old girl called the victim out on why she was still meeting with the boy, and the 18-year-old girl was supporting the instigator. They started arguing when the events took a rather dark turn.

The 16-year-old perpetrator said to the victim that she must follow her or else she would rape her with an expandable steel baton usually referred to as “Vipera” in Hungarian. She also threatened to kill her.

Having said this, the girl took the said weapon out of her bag and held it in her hand to intimidate the victim, Bors writes. The victim obliged and followed the 16 and 18-year-old girls who were bullying her for about two hours. The perpetrator held the weapon in her hands and escorted the victim while saying profanities about the victim and even spitting on her several times.

Sometime during the abuse, the perpetrator even demanded that the victim kiss her shoes or the perpetrator would cut her hair off. She pulled out a scissor, and the victim was so traumatised that out of fear, she fell to her knees and obliged.

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The victim asked for the mercy of her abusers several times and even tried to escape, but they did not let her. The attackers called her a dog and slapped her in the face three times. According to Ügyészség,

the victim fell to the ground from the third slap but quickly managed to get up and run away. The accused girls even chased her for a bit but eventually gave up.

Bors adds that although the incident happened in 2019, the public prosecutor’s office only delivered a verdict recently. Both perpetrators received a suspended sentence under the supervision of a probation officer.

43-year-old paedophile extorts pornographic content of Hungarian children

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Unfortunately, news platforms all around Hungary report more and more crimes that involve child victims. One of the more recent cases brought to court involves three young victims, a 16, an 11 and a 9 years-old little girl.

The Győr District Prosecutor’s Office indicted a 43-year-old man who had persuaded several underaged girls on online chat platforms to take off their clothes. He secretly recorded the video feeds on his computer and later used the footages to extort even more pornographic content from the victims, Ügyészség reports.

According to the indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office,

the perpetrator contacted several girls on online chat programs and disguised himself as a teenage boy in order to seduce underage girls for pornographic content from

back in 2016. This is how the man came into contact with the three victims, who were 16, 11 and 9 at the time.

After contacting them, he then proceeded to earn the young girls’ trust and asked them to send him photos of themselves without clothes, says Kisalföld. The perpetrator, however, did not stop there.

Using the images he received, the man blackmailed the victims into stripping naked for him on live video chat, or he would release the nudes on the internet.

Out of fear the images would go public, the young girls obeyed the perpetrator, who made them pose naked in front of the camera. Unbeknownst to the girls, the man recorded the video calls and later uploaded the footage he acquired to child pornographic sites on the Darknet.

The then 38-years-old man is charged now with sexual violence, sexual coercion and child pornography. He may be sentenced to a total of 15 years imprisonment.

Another case was closed recently, where back in 2018, a then 16-year-old boy, who used an application to receive nude images from young girls, has released one of the victim’s images to the girl’s classmates after she denied sending the perpetrator more pornographic content, Origo writes.

The boy has received a one-year suspended sentence, and a probation officer was assigned to him. Additionally, he has to attend value correction training.

Sudanese woman charged with possession of child porn and drugs in Budapest – VIDEO

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The woman received asylum from the Hungarian state back in 2003.

Crime happens everywhere. Even the most disgusting form committed against children is present in every single country. In Hungary, however, DNH reported quite a lot of these cases in the past months. 

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The 45-year-old Sudanese woman has been living in Hungary since 2003, after seeking asylum and applying for refugee status.

Last year, suspicion arose that she might have misled the Hungarian authorities when applying and receiving her documentation. To find out the truth, the Immigration and Asylum Office started an investigation to annul her refugee status. The authorities found traces of crime on her mobile phone during this procedure, and thus, they denounced her.

According to the indictment,

the police found three shots containing child pornographic elements.

She had received the pictures through an application from someone else. Later on, in the autumn of 2019, she forwarded two of them to a third person’s phone, wrote liner.hu.

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Source: police.hu

Moreover, during the whole of the investigation,

the police found almost 400 grams of cocaine inside 34 capsules

in her rented apartment in District VIII, reported MTI. The approximate value of the drugs is over 30 million forints (over 85 thousand euros).

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Source: police.hu

The Prosecutor’s Office of Budapest initiates her arrest as a suspect of possessing child pornographic content and a considerable amount of narcotics. According to the Office, there is a chance that she might try to run away or hide to aggravate the investigation.

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Horror! Mother and child held captive in a hut in Budapest

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A Hungarian man held captive a mother and her two-year-old child in a wooden hut in Budapest.

Many strange crimes happen every day in the world, but some are especially cruel and unbelievable. It is not the first time DNH reports on a Hungarian victim being held captive in a small wooden hut.

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A 30-year-old Hungarian man from Budapest met a woman and mother to a small kid last year in February. He “tried to have a relationship with her”. When he did not achieve his plan,

he abused the mother and threatened to hurt her two-year-old child if she did not comply with his request.

Afraid and ready to protect her kid, the next month, she agreed to move in with the man to a wooden hut in a forest-like area of the 21st district.

Although the proper living circumstances and needs of a two-year-old child were not provided, the man did not care about it, wrote index.hu. 
He held them captive and impeded the woman from breaking free from her hostage situation.

He even abused the child on several occasions.

Finally, the woman managed to escape in May 2020. The detectives detained the perpetrator the same day.

The deputy of the Attorney-General of Budapest told MTI on Tuesday that the defendant is being charged with several offences by the Prosecutor’s Offices of the 20th, 21st, and 23rd districts. They called for prison time for violation of personal freedom, for causing grievous bodily harm against a person incapable of self-defence, and for the endangerment of a minor. Moreover,

they asked for his banning from performing any profession that would put him in an authoritative role with children.

The defendant was already previously arrested and is currently imprisoned for another crime, wrote ugyeszseg.hu. 

Andrea Üveges, the deputy of the Attorney-General, highlighted that the Office of the Prosecutor General firmly stands up against these atrocities with the force of the law, as the fight to erase aggression committed against women and children is a crucial role both of the state bodies and the rest of the society.

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Socialists call for Hungary to join European Public Prosecutor’s Office

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The opposition Socialists called on the government to have Hungary join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), an MEP of the party said on Thursday.

István Újhelyi told a press conference that the party backed Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony’s five-question referendum bid, where one question pertains to the country joining the EPPO.

Újhelyi accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “and his regime” of “shunning the EPPO and all independent organisations that could reveal their dirty tricks”.

“Only those with something to fear run from the authorities,” he said.

The European Union has regularly criticised Hungary for spending funding on goals other than what they were originally allocated to, Újhelyi said.

The EU has recently raised the possibility of freezing funding for Hungary, “not specifically because of the homophobic law or the harassment of the Central European University, or rule of law considerations … but because of corruption, the frequency with which EU resources are misused, and the links of those cases to top political circles,” he said.

If elected in the general elections next spring, an opposition government would immediately join the EPPO, Újhelyi said.

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Prosecutor presses charges against football fans assaulting Slovaks

The prosecutor’s office has pressed charges against three Hungarians on suspicion of assaulting Slovak football supporters after a Hungary-Slovakia match back in September 2019, the municipal chief prosecutor of Budapest told MTI on Tuesday.

According to Tibor Ibolya’s statement, two, 35 and 31 year-old brothers and a 27 year old third person, as part of a larger group, attacked a group of Slovak supporters on their way back to their hotel after the match.

The three suspects chased two Slovak fans, hit one of them, and caused serious injuries to the other, who suffered a broken nose and fractured ribs.

The prosecutor’s office has proposed suspended prison sentences and banning the suspects from visiting football events.

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OLAF: another record fine for fraud in Hungary

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Hungary was the most penalised country for fraud involving EU money between 2016 and 2020, according to an annual report by the EU’s anti-fraud office, says Euronews.

The correction rate affects 2.2% of payments, more than seven times the EU average. However, it is still an improvement on last year’s figure of almost four percent. Meanwhile, the authorities’ cooperation with EU bodies has improved: two thirds of cases investigated by the Hungarian authorities have been prosecuted.

By comparison, the EU average over this period was 0.29%, meaning that Hungary’s fine is more than seven times higher.

And it is three times the rate of the second worst, Bulgaria, at 0.69%.

Public Prosecutor’s Office: Hungary prosecutes more OLAF cases than EU average

Hungary prosecutes 67 percent of the cases investigated by the European Union’s anti-fraud body OLAF, close to twice the European Union average of 37 percent, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday.

The 2020 annual report of OLAF shows that the body’s recommendations directed at Hungary had fallen from ten in 2016 to six in 2017, four in 2018, three in 2019 and two last year.

Several of the recommended cases were already being investigated at the time of the recommendation, the office said.

It said that Péter Polt, Hungary’s chief prosecutor, had met Ville Itala, OLAF’s Director-General, in Budapest on January 31. They reaffirmed that their cooperation and an effective exchange of information on the misuse of EU funds remain a priority. Polt and Ville agreed that the two bodies would work out an agreement on further strengthening their professional cooperation which is set to be finalised soon.

Read the full report HERE. 

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