The Debrecen District Court has issued a verdict in a criminal case in which the perpetrators, including Romanian citizens, impersonated police officers and committed robberies and other related crimes in two Hungarian towns.
According to the statement, the third and fourth defendants were sentenced to prison; the verdict is not final in their cases. The fifth defendant, as an accomplice, was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence, which is final. The first and second defendants are under detention in Romania, and the Romanian authorities have not consented to their extradition, so the court has suspended the proceedings against them.
The court’s information states that in January 2020, the first, second, and third defendants, all Romanian citizens, robbed a man in Debrecen who had previously been legally engaged in money exchange and had continued to do so at home.
The defendants waited for the man at his home, and when he arrived home with his wife, they shouted “Police, put your hands up!” and tied the couple’s hands and feet and forced them to lie on the floor. The defendants searched the house and found a bag containing 32 million forints and foreign currency.
On another occasion, in March 2020, the first, second, and fourth defendants appeared at the house of a man in Kaba to obtain cash and drugs. The defendants shouted in front of the door, “Police, open the door!”, and while searching the house for valuables, they fired the gas alarm weapon at least three times. The defendants found 105,000 forints in the house, which they took, then left the people in the house tied up and left.
(MTI)
