Police Detain Former Hungarian PM Orban’s Brother: Report
Police said the four suspects helped more than 100 Vietnamese nationals obtain Hungarian residence permits through a criminal conspiracy for profit.
- On Monday, Hungarian police detained four individuals, including Áron Orbán, the brother of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as part of a human-trafficking and influence-peddling investigation.
- The National Bureau of Investigation and National Asset Recovery and Protection Office conducted a joint operation targeting an alleged scheme that facilitated residence permits for over 100 Vietnamese nationals in 2024 seeking to reach Western Europe.
- Investigators allege suspects charged recruitment fees to bypass standard administrative procedures, with one individual accused of invoking political connections to secure priority status for labor-recruitment companies.
- Former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán condemned the detention as a "dirty game" and "political persecution," writing on Facebook that "I am the target; my brother is merely a tool."
- Prime Minister Péter Magyar, whose Tisza party defeated Orbán in April, has dubbed these anti-corruption efforts "Operation Cleansing Fire" to investigate abuses during the previous 16 years of governance.
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The investigation points to alleged crimes committed during the government of the former prime minister and involves entrepreneurs and former officials in his environment
The Hungarian authorities have arrested Áron Orbán, 49 years old and the younger brother of former ultra-conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an investigation into human trafficking. The current head of government, Péter Magyar, confirmed this Monday in Berlin: Áron Orbán is one of four arrested in an operation of the National Asset Protection and Recovery Office (NVVH) and the police. Investigators suspect that, for several months in 20…
The former prime minister calls the case "a political witch hunt".
Hungarian police arrested businessman Aron Orbán, brother of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, on Tuesday as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking, in which three other people have also been arrested.
The relative of the former premier would have profited from the entrance of the illegals. What strikes is the timing: the handcuffs take place when the government had to defend itself against accusations of espionage. And the repulist continues. The article Magyar arrests Orbán's brother. The new Hungary is now vindicating itself from The Truth.
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