{"id":1246294,"date":"2025-06-16T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/scandal-in-budapest-orbans-ally-scares-the-population-with-organ-trafficking-due-to-ukraines-accession-to-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:58:32","slug":"scandal-in-budapest-orbans-ally-scares-the-population-with-organ-trafficking-due-to-ukraines-accession-to-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/scandal-in-budapest-orbans-ally-scares-the-population-with-organ-trafficking-due-to-ukraines-accession-to-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal in Budapest: Orban&#8217;s ally scares the population with &#8220;organ trafficking&#8221; due to Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungarian society is outraged by a new scandalous move by Prime Minister Viktor Orban&#8217;s ally, Alexandra Szentkirai. The Hungarian leader&#8217;s former press secretary has published a video clip in which she unsubstantiatedly linked Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the EU with the threat of organ smuggling, human trafficking, and drug trafficking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> She posted the corresponding video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1702919357005639\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> In the politician&#8217;s video, a man with his hands tied in the trunk of a car appears. Szentkirai claims off-screen that the enlargement of the European Union through Ukraine&#8217;s accession will allegedly open the door to organized crime, without citing a single fact or source.<\/p>\n<p> As journalists found out, the &#8220;victim&#8221; in the staged video was not an actor, but an employee of Prime Minister Orban&#8217;s office. The fact that a civil servant participated in the provocation only intensified the outrage.<\/p>\n<p> The opposition reacted immediately. <strong>Momentum<\/strong> MP Ferenc Gelen\u010der condemned Szentkir\u00e1ly&#8217;s actions and promised to contact the police. According to him, publishing disinformation that could potentially cause panic among citizens or harm public order falls under criminal law.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;How can you be so reckless as to baselessly attack a country where many Hungarians live?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p> Gelencher also called on Szentkirai to remove the video so as not to &#8220;shame the country before the international community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1246294-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AQPrf2B2r7z-UU2ZnoaQ5KyIyVKs8jpIG3LxnMSroEK5epIPwp8qcgmNfkoiWbf013PyQsxxwmkb4Hnu.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AQPrf2B2r7z-UU2ZnoaQ5KyIyVKs8jpIG3LxnMSroEK5epIPwp8qcgmNfkoiWbf013PyQsxxwmkb4Hnu.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AQPrf2B2r7z-UU2ZnoaQ5KyIyVKs8jpIG3LxnMSroEK5epIPwp8qcgmNfkoiWbf013PyQsxxwmkb4Hnu.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> As reported, in May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-rozkrytykuvav-dii-orbana-stosovno-ukrainy\/\">Zelensky sharply criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accusing him of drawing Ukraine into a domestic political struggle on the eve of the 2026 elections in Hungary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> By the way, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban convened the Defense Council, announcing an \u201cunprecedented operation by the secret services.\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bezpretsedentna-operatsiia-spetssluzhb-orban-zvynuvatyv-opozytsiiu-u-spivpratsi-z-ukrainoiu\/\">accused the Hungarian party \u201cTisa\u201d of colluding with Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-zvynuvatyv-ukrainu-u-zrostanni-kiberzlochynnosti-v-uhorshchyni\/\">Orban announced the growth of cybercrime of Ukrainian origin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As is known, Orban stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-vystupyv-proty-vstupu-ukrainy-do-yevrosoiuzu\/\">a significant part of banking fraud in the country, according to him &#8211; 80%, is related to Ukrainian citizens.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian society is outraged by a new scandalous move by Prime Minister Viktor Orban&#8217;s ally, Alexandra Szentkirai. The Hungarian leader&#8217;s former press secretary has published a video clip in which she unsubstantiatedly linked Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the EU with the threat of organ smuggling, human trafficking, and drug trafficking. She posted the corresponding video on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1246286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1246294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}