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Police arrested a Turkish national who transported 38 migrants in his van, the Tolna County police has said.

A Budapest court increased the prison sentence of an Afghan national convicted of rape, coercion and indecency to six years and eight months in a biding ruling on Tuesday, the court’s press department said in a statement.

German police have arrested a convicted Hungarian people smuggler in an operation in south-western Germany, police.hu said, adding that an extradition procedure is under way. The man, identified as János H, was sentenced to four years in prison by a court in Szeged, in southern Hungary, in January this year. He was hiding in Waldbroon, […]

A court in Balassagyarmat in northern Hungary has sentenced two Dutch men in a non-final ruling to eight and a half years in prison for selling drugs at a music festival in Nógrád County in 2017. The court has also ruled to expel them from Hungary for ten years, the county chief prosecutor said. Gyula […]

Officials of Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) have seized fake branded clothing with a market value of more than 1.5 billion forints (EUR 4.3m) from a lorry with Turkish licence plates on the M43 motorway in southern Hungary, NAV has said.

A British national has been charged with attempting to smuggle 22kg of heroin into Germany via Hungary, the Csongrád-Csanád county prosecutor’s office has said. According to the charges, the Englishman tried to smuggle the record-breaking amount of heroin into Hungary from Serbia hidden in stashes under his car seats on January 19. His plan was […]

A Syrian national suspected of operating a people smuggling ring was arrested in Budapest, police.hu reported.

The district court of Szombathely, in western Hungary, handed a prison term of two years and eight months to a Romanian national who had attempted to help four migrants cross into Austria illegally in September.