Bella Bucta was acquitted and then tried again. In the end, he decided to leave the country because he saw his inability to defend himself fairly in the proceedings against him.
He was granted full asylum in the United States Bukta BellaAnd the Mihaly Varga A former adviser to the Minister of Finance, and an arrest warrant was issued against him in Hungary on charges of perjury, Hvg . BooksNoting that Buchta was also accused of espionage years ago, but was eventually acquitted in that case.
The person also told the newspaper that he had obtained full asylum in the United States due to the illegal persecution of the Hungarian judicial system, and that his cases had been investigated for years by the US authorities, including several ministries. Specifically, about his finally obtaining refugee status in the United States, Bokta said that this is a serious message from the United States on the issue of the Hungarian rule of law and has been unique since 1989.
Today, Hungary is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, but a country that carries out unfair, fabricated and fake procedures and imprisons people on trumped-up charges. I and many people in Hungary have persecuted me and many other people in Hungary for many years
Explanation of the newspaper. He added, as far as he knows, that these two cases combine so that the original case of espionage is separated into several cases, carried over with different numbers, and under different names, and thus continues to this day.
Between 2006 and 2007, Bella Buchta was an advisor to Mihaly Varga, moved to the United States in 2019 and applied for political asylum. The newspaper states that Buchta went abroad after the court acquitted him of a spying case. The point was to suspect that Bukta was part of an organization called the “Empire”. Maxine Norbert On behalf of the United States, he handed over a classified military document to an American intelligence officer at the United States Embassy, specifically the Army’s Ten Years Defense Plan.
After all, we were illegally imprisoned for espionage in very poor conditions. I was forbidden to keep in touch with my children, I could not see them, and if they wrote a letter at Christmas, I received it at Easter. On the other hand, Maxine Norbert was starved to prison and later issued a decree not to receive the minimum food required by law. We were both pressed and told that the other one had already confessed to spying
Buchta told HVG.
In court, the indictment failed to prove that Buchta was spying on the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the Swiss Fund. After the court acquitted Bukta in the espionage case, the man went to the United States in 2019 for criminal prosecution on charges of giving false testimony and seeking political asylum. He justified this on the grounds that he could not defend himself impartially in the proceedings against him.
