Further charges pressed against the suspect of young offender facility scandal that shook Hungary
The prosecutor’s investigative office of Budapest has pressed charges of embezzlement and fraud against the primary suspect of the scandal concerning the young offender facility of Budapest’s Szőlő Street, the office said on Tuesday.
The former head of the young offender facility in Szőlő Street, in the capital’s 3rd district, has already been charged with human trafficking and forced labour in connection with three people, the Hungarian news agency wrote.
According to the new charges, the suspect used falsified attendance records to provide a salary to the three victims and his own partner as if they were employees of the facility, leaving the facility short of 56.5 million forints.
The former director and his partner, who is secondary suspect in the case, are in pre-trial detention.
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