Hungary hands back the Oshchadbank cash and gold the Orbán regime grabbed in March
All cash and bullion held by Hungarian special services for two months are back on Ukrainian soil, the president confirmed on 6 May.
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How you rob a bank convoy in the EU: Be Hungary, bring an APC and machine guns, deport bank couriers, keep cash and gold as “evidence”
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says Hungary returned the seven couriers and kept $40 million, €35 million, and 9 kg of gold — held as "evidence" in a criminal case with no named suspect.
Austria was the last holdout — now it’s greenlighting the EU’s 19th Russia sanctions round
Austria had insisted Brussels unfreeze Russian assets to compensate for penalties imposed by Moscow, but has now dropped the demand ahead of a vote scheduled for 20 October.