He had gone on the run after being sentenced to a seven-year prison term on December 12, 2009, for cultivating marijuana.

Farkas, who won the 82-kg Greco-Roman gold medal in the Barcelona games of 1992, left the courtroom during a break in proceed-ings and did not return. He was arrested in an Andorran hotel later that month.

Police discovered and impounded thousands of plants in a search of an 18th District house on October 14, 2004. The former Olympic champion, his brother Károly Farkas and a third man were detained on the spot.

Farkas was brought back to Hungary shortly before midnight, Kossuth Rádió reported. He was then driven to a Budapest prison."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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