Hungary has launched \u200ban internal investigation of \u200bits tax authority, \u200ccounter-terrorism forces and \u200bother agencies over the seizure of a routine Ukrainian bank cash transport \u200cunder the previous government. Seven Ukrainians transporting $82 million in cash and gold in two armoured vehicles were briefly detained in \u200cMarch on suspicion of money laundering, at a time \u200cwhen the government of Viktor Orban, an ally of Russia who has since been ousted, was at loggerheads with Kyiv.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s Oschadbank said \u2060its \u200bemployees had \u2060been engaged in a routine operation of the kind that it \u2060had carried out weekly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a Facebook \u200bpost on Wednesday, Prime Minister Peter Magyar, overwhelming winner \u2060of April’s election, said the prosecutor general “must address the matter without \u2060delay”.<\/p>\n
Orban \u200bhad made scepticism towards support for Ukraine in its war with Russia a central plank of \u2060his campaign, and vetoed new European Union sanctions on Moscow as \u2060well \u2060as a loan for Kyiv. Hungary returned the cash and gold to Ukraine days before Magyar’s \u200cinauguration. <\/p>\n
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