A 69-year-old Egyptian man claimed that he was his grandfather.
According to atv.hu, he was caught when the police found a teenage boy wandering alone in Budapest with tens of thousands of euros in his pocket. The officers of the 11th district police headquarter found the boy on August 26, at around 4 pm, on Thököly Street.
He did not have valid documents but had tens of thousands of euros in his pocket.
Following the officers’ request, he led them to his accommodation in the 7th district of Budapest where they found a 69-year-old Egyptian man. He claimed to be the grandfather of the child. However, they could not explain why the boy was wandering in the city with such a high amount of cash.
During the police investigation, it became apparent that he is not a relative of the boy. Instead, police found three Syrian citizens in his flat, together with a Moroccan and a Turkish national.
None of them could prove their lawful staying in Hungary.
Afterwards, the Egyptian national was taken into custody, while the migrants he hid in his apartment were transferred to the police headquarters of Budapest. Finally, the father of the kid went to the police station. Based on the information gathered by the police,
the Egyptian man wanted to smuggle the boy and his father to Austria.
Meanwhile, he took rent from the migrants living in his apartment.
Police officers arrested him on the suspicion of human trafficking and requested his pre-trial detention. Authorities took the father and his son to the airport police headquarters. Moreover, they transferred the migrants found in the apartment to the border station of Tompa.