The Hungarian Foreign Ministry is currently not providing legal assistance to the Hungarian man who was arrested by US authorities last week after trying to smuggle 200 banned radio sets into Russia. Written by Blake.
The newspaper reported that the Hungarian man was arrested by US authorities last week. h. i think He is currently under arrest and could face more than ten years in prison. He is suspected of conspiring to illegally export U.S.-origin wireless communications technology to Russian government end users.
The 46-year-old businessman has been living in Spain for 20 years and has launched several successful companies with his wife. On his Facebook page, he poses like James Bond on his elegant yacht or in front of a luxury sports car. But now he is forced to experience the conditions of American prisons.
Previous articles on the subject revealed that H. Benes's Hungarian mother may also have been connected to the plot, as she ran the Moscow office of a Hungarian offshore company and was also involved in the export of communications equipment. 444 It was written that F. Margarita Former office manager of a Hungarian state company, background institution of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representative office in Moscow Peter Szijjarto He opened it with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 13, 2019, and a joint photo was taken of them.
Available in US media Investigation documents Accordingly, the arrested man is suspected of conspiring with several of his accomplices, including third-country companies, to illegally export US-made wireless communications technology to Russian government end users without a license. According to reports, he wanted to deliver special Motorola radio transceivers for military use to Russia. The devices are suspected of being delivered on the orders of the Russian state.
These devices are worth their weight in gold to the Russian military leadership, which is doing everything it can to obtain them, having been unable to legally acquire the high-tech technology for years due to the embargo. Naturally, these transceivers are not commercially available. By evading US sanctions, the captured Hungarian businessman must have seriously violated US laws, which are taken very seriously there.
He said to the paper Joseph Case Benedick Retired Colonel, former Hungarian intelligence agent.
Blake asked the State Department if they were aware of the activities the woman's son had been engaged in for years, whether the man's mother had been interviewed in connection with the case, or if they planned to do so in the near future.
F. Margarita did not hold a position in a Hungarian state company. He was an employee of the Moscow partner office of the Hungarian Export Development Agency, a Russian company, whose task was to promote the products and services of Hungarian companies in Russia and the Caucasus region. The partner office was terminated in March 2023, and F. Margarita has no contractual relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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