Magyar ordered to investigate the case of transportation of gold and money to Ukraine

Hungarian customs and anti-terrorism agencies will launch internal investigations into a convoy of gold and currency that was heading to Ukraine and was stopped in Hungary.This was announced on June 17 by the country's Prime Minister Peter Magyar.

"We have ordered an immediate internal investigation at the National Tax and Customs Administration, the Center for Combating Terrorism and other relevant authorities in connection with the case of the Ukrainian golden convoy," he wrote on his page on the social network X (former. Twitter).

He also added that the issue has been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor General's Office, and Hungarian Prosecutor General Peter Polt should immediately consider this issue.

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Viktor Orban, then Prime Minister of Hungary, announced on March 27 that billions of dollars would be withdrawn from Ukraine to the West. The politician then noted that a significant part of these funds were sent to the United States, including to support the Democratic Party. Former Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on March 10 that Ukraine could not explain the transportation of billions of foreign currency through Hungarian territory.

On April 8, the National Tax and Customs Office of Hungary (NV) released a video of an ex-general of the Security Service of Ukraine, who accompanied the transportation of large amounts of currency and gold bars of the Ukrainian Oschadbank through Hungary, forging invoices for them in a public toilet.

On May 6, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Hungary had returned to Kiev the money and gold of Oschadbank, which were held by Budapest.