{"id":1369094,"date":"2026-03-13T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/political-banditry-what-happened-to-the-money-of-sberbank-in-hungary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:51:26","slug":"political-banditry-what-happened-to-the-money-of-sberbank-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/political-banditry-what-happened-to-the-money-of-sberbank-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPolitical banditry\u201d: what happened to the money of Sberbank in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Hungarian authorities have decided to hand over two seized collection machines to the Ukrainian side, but the seized funds and gold and foreign currency remain under arrest. Such steps fit into the pre-election strategy of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Former ambassador to the US and France, Oleg Shamshur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d1yxLmyN6us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticized<\/a> Budapest&#8217;s position on &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, pointing out the political basis of the process.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, it is currently unknown what technical condition the equipment is in after the safes were broken into by Hungarian services. &#8220;This is not just piracy, this is, in my opinion, just political banditry,&#8221; the studio guest emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> Shamshur recalled that this situation arose against the backdrop of the urgent adoption by the Hungarian government of legislation allowing the confiscation of the finances of a Ukrainian bank. The transfer of vehicles was to take place with the participation of representatives of the national tax and customs service, while official sources in Kyiv have not yet confirmed the fact of receiving the property, the diplomat added.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/youtu.be\/d1yxLmyN6us?t=81<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-illusion-of-a-state-convoy-whats-wrong-with-the-detention-of-oschadbank-collectors-in-hungary\/\">Diplomacy on Flashing Lights: The Curious Case of Oschadbank\u2019s \u201cState Convoy\u201d<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> He also expressed his belief that such steps fit into the pre-election strategy of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Since the seizure of assets took place without proper legal grounds, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry previously called on citizens to limit travel to this country due to possible threats and provocations, &#8211; explains Oleh Shamshur.<\/p>\n<p> We will remind, recently the Hungarian authorities in Budapest <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorska-vlada-zatrymala-simokh-pratsivnykiv-oshchadbanku-mzs\/\">detained seven Ukrainian citizens<\/a> \u2013 employees of Oschadbank \u2013 and seized the money they were transporting. At the same time, the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/orban-vidviduvav-antyterorystychnyy-tsentr-naperedodni-zakhoplennia-ukrainskykh-inkasatoriv\/\">visited the anti-terrorist center<\/a> on the day of the seizure of the Ukrainian collection vehicles. Later that day, the security forces of this unit seized a car with currency and gold.<\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, seven collectors of Oschadbank, who were previously detained in Hungary, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zatrymanykh-inkasatoriv-oshchadbanku-deportuvaly-z-uhorshchyny-zmi\/\">were deported from the country<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-povernula-simokh-inkasatoriv-oshchadbanku-z-uhorshchyny\/\">returned to Ukraine<\/a> . Meanwhile, the National Bank of Ukraine is working to <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nbu-pratsiuie-nad-povernenniam-vantazhu-z-inkasatorskykh-avto-zatrymanykh-v-uhorshchyni\/\">return the cargo from the collector&#8217;s cars<\/a> , which were detained by the Hungarian authorities. The regulator called the incident a provocation without legal grounds. It also became known that the Hungarian authorities are ready to transfer two confiscated Oschadbank cars to Ukraine, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/uhorshchyna-planuie-povernuty-vykradeni-avto-oshchadbanku-ale-bez-hroshey-zmi\/\">they do not plan to return the funds and gold<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to political scientist Serhiy Taran, the incident with the detention in Hungary of a vehicle carrying a large sum of money <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zatrymannia-inkasatoriv-v-uhorshchyni-u-chomu-realna-prychyna\/\">is artificially tied to the election campaign<\/a> of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is currently trying to increase his own rating through the confrontation with Ukraine.<\/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 authorities have decided to hand over two seized collection machines to the Ukrainian side, but the seized funds and gold and foreign currency remain under arrest. Such steps fit into the pre-election strategy of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Former ambassador to the US and France, Oleg Shamshur, criticized Budapest&#8217;s position on &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, pointing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1366856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1369094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369094","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}