Foreigner Detained for Trying to Bribe Budapest Police
- 9 Apr 2025 3:40 PM
The Budapest Investigative Prosecutor's Office questioned a Cambodian man as a suspect who wanted to hand over 40,000 forints to police officers recently in order to be released without further action.
The Central Prosecutor's Office told MTI on Wednesday that on Sunday, police in Budapest checked an Asian man who, during his ID check, said that he had forgotten his documents in his apartment.
During a search of the man, the first page of an old-format driver's license issued in 1997 was found in his briefcase, the serial number of which was blurred and the validity had also expired.
Since the police were unable to establish his identity from the ID card and the information dictated by the man, and he could not prove his legal residence in Hungary, they told him that he would be taken to the district police station to establish his identity, and then put him in the service vehicle.
According to "well-founded suspicion", the man then repeatedly asked the police to let him go, then took two 20,000 forint banknotes from his wallet in the back seat of the car and wanted to hand them over to the patrol officer sitting next to him, while telling the officials who were taking action that "I will give you forty thousand forints if you let me go."
The investigating prosecutors questioned the man on suspicion of the crime of aggravated official bribery the day after the crime was committed, but the suspect did not testify.
They emphasised that the man did not have valid Hungarian or Cambodian documents, could not prove his legal residence in Hungary in any way, had no registered address, and did not provide his place of residence.
The prosecutor's office has filed a motion to arrest the perpetrator in custody, and the investigative judge of the Buda Central District Court will decide on the coercive measure on Wednesday, the statement says.
Source:
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.
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