The Debrecen Regional Investigative Prosecutor’s Office proposed the ordering of coercive measures affecting personal freedom in the case of all new suspects in the ongoing proceedings for corruption crimes.
According to the essence of the well-founded suspicion, from March 2021 at the latest, the border guards belonging to the Bihar Kresztes Border Police Branch regularly committed corruption crimes in the course of their duties, in which civilians were also assisted.
In its new criminal operation held on April 17, 2023 – in which nearly 150 prosecutors and police officers participated – the investigative prosecutor’s office ordered the detention of five border guards and two civilians, and then interrogated all of them as suspects. None of the suspects admitted to committing crimes.
The Asset Recovery Office of the Emergency Police National Investigation Office (KR NNI VVH) initiated an asset recovery procedure against the seven suspects. The KR NNI VVH investigators took a total of nearly HUF 50 million worth of assets from them. Of this, more than HUF 10 million was in cash or on account, while the rest of the assets were real estate and cars.
The border guards distributed the bribe money among themselves on the basis of a pre-arranged system, and in order for them to be assigned to duty in the places considered “more profitable” and to be able to continue their activities undisturbed, they also gave share to the service managers and a sub-department manager. The officers on duty at the crossing benefited from the money in order not to report the corruption crimes committed.
Among the suspects involved in the proceedings, five policemen and one civilian were arrested, and another civilian, who committed the crimes as an accomplice, was requested by the investigating prosecutor to order criminal supervision, which the Military Council of the Debrecen Court will decide on today.
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