More than twenty law enforcement officers Hungary caught for bribes at the border line with Ukraine
Alexander Kuranov. In Hungary detained 21 employees of the border police, accused of corruption during the military service at the border crossing Zahony on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, about it on Wednesday during a speech on the Republican TV said the Commissioner of the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General of Hungary Richard Simon.
He said that in the summer of the current year at the same transition have been caught several employees of the national Tax and customs administration (NTA) suspected of facilitating the smuggling of cigarettes from Ukraine.
"For the Prosecutor's office it was surprising that border law enforcement Ministers, despite these recent developments, did not hesitate to take bribes," said Simon.
Just taking bribes is suspected 38 of the enforcement agencies involved at the border crossing Zahony, of which during Monday and Tuesday were caught 21 people. Others questioned, but as long as remain free.
According to Simon, the Hungarian law enforcement agencies has within its ranks 48 thousand employees, and NTA - 23 thousand.
"The fact that there are 18 customs officers and 38 police officers, have appeared weak-minded and chose life in a false way, does not mean that in the Republic there are problems with law enforcement officials," drew the attention of Simon.
As shown by the investigation materials, which is not fully known to the media, law-enforcement officers at the border crossing Zahony, located near the Ukrainian border station Chop, occasionally and often on the personal initiative he took from foreigners cash in the amount of from 20 to 100 euros for the "oversight" carried out At the border control. At searches in apartments and houses of suspected militiamen during Monday-Tuesday was found in total, several million forints and several thousand euros.
Simon said that in case of confirmation of existing suspicions of bribery arrested the border police threatens from 2 till 8 years of prison.