• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Watch: Brazilian Drug Trafficker Handed Over to Belgian Authorities at Budapest Airport

Watch: Brazilian Drug Trafficker Handed Over to Belgian Authorities at Budapest Airport

• 19 Jun 2023 9:56 AM
• Hungary Matters

The Hungarian authorities on Thursday handed over a Brazilian national arrested in Budapest last summer on charges of drug trafficking and other crimes to Belgium, the police said on its website.

The 54-year-old drug lord smuggled at least 45 tonnes of cocaine between 2017 and 2019 alone. Hungarian police apprehended him after information received form international law-enforcement partners, police noted.

After his arrest, he remained in custody during the extradition procedure. He was handed over to the Belgian authorities at Liszt Ferenc International Airport on June 15 in line with the strictest security regulations and a precise action plan prepared by the National Investigation Bureau (NNI), police said.

Earlier on  OCCRP: 
Hungary Close to Extraditing 'Brazilian Escobar’
 

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Brazilian Drug Trafficker Belgian Authorities Budapest Airport

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

On the Run Leader of Balkans Drug Cartel Brought to Hungary

• 10 Nov 2024 10:37 AM

The leader of a drug cartel active in the Balkans, a Hungarian national, has been brought back to Hungary after his arrest in Tenerife in August, the National Bureau of Investigation of Hungary's Rapid Response Police said.



Kuria Ruling on Orban Libel Suit May Endanger Press Freedom in Hungary

• 29 Oct 2024 7:02 AM

The government is launching a new National Consultation, this time on the issue of economic neutrality, Prime Minister's Office leader Gergely Gulyas announced at a Wednesday press conference after the cabinet met on Tuesday.



Updated: Fidesz Urges EC Action on Ukraine 'Blackmail'

• 12 Aug 2024 8:12 AM

Tamás Deutsch, the head of ruling' Fidesz's European parliamentary delegation, has called on the European Commission to "take immediate steps to counter Ukraine's blackmail" of Hungary and Slovakia.



Shocking Revelations: How Hungarians Are Targeted For Sex Work in Western Europe

• 18 Jul 2024 9:36 AM

Although encouraging prostitution is a criminal offence In Hungary, the authorities say there is nothing wrong with openly advertising foreign sex work to Hungarian women. Direkt36 looked behind the sex work advertisements as part of an international investigative project.