{"id":1366445,"date":"2026-03-06T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/detention-of-ukrainian-debt-collectors-in-hungary-budapest-publishes-footage-of-the-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:56:20","slug":"detention-of-ukrainian-debt-collectors-in-hungary-budapest-publishes-footage-of-the-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/detention-of-ukrainian-debt-collectors-in-hungary-budapest-publishes-footage-of-the-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Detention of Ukrainian debt collectors in Hungary: Budapest publishes footage of the \u201coperation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Hungarian government has released a video of the detention of Ukrainian collection vehicles and bank employees by anti-terrorist forces. The footage shows the moment of a special operation at a gas station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/847886704923155\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the press service<\/a> of the institution.<\/p>\n<p> The released footage shows armed officers from the TEK anti-terrorist center surrounding Ukrainian debt collection vehicles. The special forces blocked traffic right near the gas stations.<\/p>\n<p> After that, the passengers and drivers of the collection vehicles were forcibly removed from the vehicles for further investigative actions. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F847886704923155%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> So far, the Hungarian side has not provided detailed explanations regarding the reasons for the involvement of the anti-terrorist unit in the detention of the bank employees.<\/p>\n<p> It is reported that the incident caused a stir because it involved the detention of personnel from a financial institution in another country.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-does-not-rule-out-the-possibility-of-imposing-sanctions-against-hungary\/\">Ukraine does not rule out the possibility of imposing sanctions against Hungary.<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\nAs a reminder, Foreign Minister Andriy Szybiga stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorska-vlada-zatrymala-simokh-pratsivnykiv-oshchadbanku-mzs\/\">Hungarian authorities in Budapest detained seven Ukrainian citizens \u2014 employees of Oschadbank \u2014 and seized the money they were transporting.<\/a> Meanwhile, Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zatrymannia-inkasatoriv-siiarto-zvynuvatyv-ukraintsiv-u-perevezenni-hroshey-viyskovoi-mafii\/\">Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 stated that Budapest is demanding explanations from Ukraine regarding the transportation of significant amounts of cash and gold through Hungarian territory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> It should be noted that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-vidviduvav-antyterorystychnyy-tsentr-naperedodni-zakhoplennia-ukrainskykh-inkasatoriv\/\">Orban visited the country&#8217;s anti-terrorist center on the day the Ukrainian tax collection vehicles transiting through Hungary to Ukraine were seized<\/a> . Later that day, security forces from this unit seized tax collection vehicles with currency and gold.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraintsiam-radiat-utrymatysia-vid-poizdok-do-uhorshchyny\/\">the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends that Ukrainians refrain from traveling to Hungary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Later, media reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zatrymanykh-inkasatoriv-oshchadbanku-deportuvaly-z-uhorshchyny-zmi\/\">seven Oschadbank collectors who had previously been detained in Hungary had been deported from the country.<\/a> At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vykradennia-inkasatoriv-oshchadbanku-v-uhorshchyni-natspolitsiia-vidkryla-spravu\/\">the National Police of Ukraine opened criminal cases over the kidnapping of seven Ukrainian collectors<\/a> and an Oschadbank company car in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hungarian government has released a video of the detention of Ukrainian collection vehicles and bank employees by anti-terrorist forces. The footage shows the moment of a special operation at a gas station. This was reported by the press service of the institution. The released footage shows armed officers from the TEK anti-terrorist center surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1366434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1366445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366445","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=1366445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}