Hungary

Arrests Follow Multi-Location Procedural Actions On September 19, coordinated procedural actions were carried out in multiple locations as part of a corruption investigation led by the Debreceni Regional Investigative Prosecutor's Office. The Counter-Terrorism Centre, the Hajdú-Bihar County Police Headquarters, the National Defence Service, and the Asset Recovery Office of the National Investigative Office of the Standby Police collaborated in executing these actions at the Ártánd Road Border Crossing and the Nagykereki Motorway Border Crossing. This investigation led to the interrogation and eventual arrest of two border police officers suspected of accepting bribes. Origins of the Corruption Investigation The suspicion of corruption arose from an incident at the Ártánd border crossing in October of the previous year. A German nationality truck driver intending to exit the country was informed by one o...

  Unexpected Meeting between Tech Titan and Hungarian President Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX, recently met with Katalin Novák, the President of Hungary, in Austin, Texas. The meeting, as documented by a photograph posted on Novák's social media page, comes in the wake of an invitation extended by Novák to Musk to attend the Budapest Demographic Summit. The Budapest Demographic Summit (Also Read: Socialists Demand Defence Minister’s Resignation, Extraordinary Meeting of Defence Committee in Parliament) The Budapest Demographic Summit, a significant international conference held biennially in Hungary since 2015, focuses on exploring demographic trends, c...