Ukraine's Foreign Ministry provides update on case involving cash-in-transit guards

Heorhii Tykhyi, spokesperson for Ukraine's Foreign Ministry, has outlined the current status of the case regarding Hungary's seizure of cash-in-transit vehicles and the confiscation of cash and gold on 5 March.

Tykhyi said the case is currently unfolding in the legal domain.

"Lawyers are working, including those of our banks. They are working on the return of the funds stolen from Ukraine, stolen from a state-run bank," he stated, responding to a query from European Pravda.

The spokesperson reiterated the position of Ukraine's foreign policy ministry, which considers the situation "an act of state banditry".

"Hungary abducted people and money that were moving under international agreements between Austria and Ukraine and had no relation to Hungary whatsoever. Sadly, there are no lines that the Orbán government is unwilling to cross," Tykhyi said.

The cash-in-transit vehicles with damaged equipment on board were returned to Oschadbank, while the valuables seized from them remain in Hungary.

The Hungarian government has reported that Hungary's National Tax and Customs Administration has released "new evidence" in the case of the seizure of Ukrainian cash-in-transit vehicles and the confiscation of cash and gold.

Hungarian investigators supposedly established that the armoured vehicles were carrying "freshly printed euros and dollars".

During the entire period of detention in Hungary in early March, Oschadbank cash-in-transit workers were kept in handcuffs and one of them was subjected to two injections between interrogations.

An Oschadbank representative filed a complaint with Hungary's chief prosecutor's office in the cash-in-transit workers case.