Lawyer Horváth Lóránt filed a motion to arrest Viktor Orbán and three others in the gold convoy case, citing a leaked prosecution document that implicates the former PM.
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A lawyer representing Ukrainian cash couriers has filed a motion to arrest former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and three former senior officials in connection with the 2020 “gold convoy” case, Hungarian news site 24.hu reported Friday.
The motion, which 24.hu said it had obtained, seeks the arrest of Orbán, former TEK director János Hajdú, former state secretary Örs Farkas, and former NAV deputy head Tamás Demeter. The lawyer, Horváth Lóránt, based the request on a leaked prosecution document first published by the news site 444 on Thursday. The Hungarian Prosecutor’s Office did not deny the document’s authenticity, 24.hu noted.
The leaked document, according to 444, states that Orbán may bear criminal liability in the case. The motion cites seven counts of “illegal detention committed with base motive and by tormenting the victim, and the crime of coercion to testify,” 24.hu reported. The cumulative sentence for those charges ranges from 2 to 12 years in prison.
Hungarian opposition politician Péter Magyar posted on social media Thursday evening: “Based on the leaked document, we demand an immediate response from the prosecutor’s office on whether they have questioned Viktor Orbán and János Hajdú as suspects in the gold convoy case.”
The gold convoy case dates to early 2020, when Ukrainian couriers carrying several million euros were stopped at Budapest airport and detained for weeks. Human rights groups have alleged that the detention involved torture and coercion to falsely confess. The case has become a major political scandal, with opposition figures accusing the Orbán government of using state forces to seize foreign assets.
The leaked document, if authentic, would mark the first time a Hungarian prosecution body has formally acknowledged Orbán’s potential role. The motion argues that the individuals who ordered the detention can now be identified through witness testimony, and that pre-trial detention is necessary to prevent collusion or flight risk.
The court will now decide whether to issue arrest warrants. The prosecutor’s office has not commented on the motion.
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