Budapest (MTI) – The Pest central district court decided on Wednesday to handle the case of five protesters detained after a demonstration against the government’s plan to tax internet use in ordinary proceedings and returned their documents to the public…
Budapest, October 14 (MTI) – Hungarian police task forces in 2014 have clamped down on illegal online retailers of cigarette and spirits who failed to pay 140 million forints in taxes, daily Magyar Nemzet said today. During 2,000 online checks,…
(MTI) – An Austrian citizen who, a court Hungarian ruled, killed a Hungarian policeman by deliberately running over him two years ago, has died in a Hungarian prison, the Austrian foreign ministry told APA news agency, confirming reports in the…
Budapest, October 10 (MTI) – Police at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc international airport arrested a Nigerian man who tried to smuggle 1.2kg of cocaine in the form of capsules secreted in his body. Attila Suller, spokesman for the tax and customs…
Budapest, October 1 (MTI) – Hungarian police have arrested ten members of a criminal organisation suspected of making and distributing psychoactive drugs, while one suspect has handed himself in. Officers of the Budapest police headquarters (BRFK) and anti-terror centre (TEK)…
Budapest, September 11 (MTI) – Slovak millionaire Eva Rezesova Varholikova has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for causing a fatal road accident in 2012 while driving under the influence. The appellate court raised a 6-year prison sentence. Four…
(MTI) – A special unit of the national police force searched the Budapest headquarters of Okotars, a foundation coordinating the distribution of funds from the EEA/Norway Grants in Hungary, under suspicion of embezzlement and unauthorised financial activities, the police told…
Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – Reducing violent crime, such as robberies and rowdy behaviour, drug-related crime and car theft are the most urgent tasks for Budapest police, the city’s police chief said in interviews published in Friday’s dailies Magyar Nemzet…
(MTI) – Hungary’s national police chief firmly rejected claims of ethnic based discrimination when levying fines, in a letter released on the police homepage on Thursday. Karoly Papp responded to an initiative by the Roma Press Centre and five civil…
Budapest, August 6 (MTI) – A Hungarian man who received a prison sentence in Hungary for murder has been returned from Thailand where he had been hiding since 2008, the national police said on its website today. Antal R. killed…
Beginning this week, four new psychoactive substances are being included the so-called C list as designer drugs; consequently, the police may initiate the respective proceedings following their confiscation. Prompt legislation with regard to designer drugs is crucial, as a race…
Budapest, July 25 (MTI) – Drivers on their way to Serbia should expect a waiting time of several hours at the border stations of Roszke and Tompa, the police told MTI on Friday afternoon. Long queues of vehicles have formed…
The new modifying decree of the Hungarian Highway Code permits cycling when you’ve had a bit to drink. Since the 18th of July cyclists have been allowed to be on road inasmuch as they are capable of having proper control…
Motorist will be observed by 160 mobile and 365 fix”complex traffic checkpoints”. The system would have three functions: to modernize the assessment of road tolls, identify those who exceed the speed limit and penalize them, and finally; the police would…
Budapest, July 2 (MTI) – Bogus police officers in Budapest have been stopping foreigners on the pretense of checking their documents while actually stealing their money, the metropolitan police reported on its website on Wednesday. Two foreign men pretending to…
Budapest, June 16 (MTI) – Police have uncovered labs producing psychoactive substances which have appeared in tablets and cigarettes turning up in the capital and in the Lake Balaton resort of Siofok. Police have been pursuing an investigation since 2013,…
According to Penzcentrum.hu website, the new “big brother” speed cams are going to start working before the end of the year. There are 160 new equipments and they can be repositioned, thus can detect those drivers who overtake motorists at…
It is high time the Danube Coordination Centre was set up – said Minister of Interior, Sándor Pintér at the opening conference of the Danube River Forum in Budapest. The establishment of the centre and the definition of operation principles…