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Hungary sent commandos to seize Ukraine’s $82 million bank convoy. Its investigators now say they have found no crime

Hungarian investigators found the seized cash and gold came from a lawful bank deal. Attention has now turned to officials behind the raid.

byDaniel Thomas

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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.

byYuri Zoria

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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.

byYuri Zoria

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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.

byYuri Zoria

Raiffeisen Bank International

Hungary sent commandos to seize Ukraine’s $82 million bank convoy. Its investigators now say they have found no crime

Hungary hands back the Oshchadbank cash and gold the Orbán regime grabbed in March

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”

Austria was the last holdout — now it’s greenlighting the EU’s 19th Russia sanctions round

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