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Shaun Walker and Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest

Hungary officials ‘gave Ukrainian forced injection’ after raid on bank vehicles

Piles of banknotes and gold bars
Photo released by Hungarian government purportedly showing the money and gold confiscated from the two vehicles. Photograph: Hungarian Government/AFP/Getty Images

Hungarian security operatives administered a “forced injection” to one of the Ukrainians detained earlier this month during a dramatic raid on bank vehicles carrying gold bars and tens of millions of dollars and euros in cash, sources have told the Guardian.

Hungary’s TEK anti-terrorism police detained seven Ukrainians from the state savings bank, Oschadbank, on 5 March. They were accompanying a convoy of two armoured cars from Vienna to Ukraine, as it transited Hungary in what Kyiv claims was a regular transfer of state funds. Hungarian officials have claimed it was money for the “Ukrainian war mafia”, without giving details.

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