{"id":598191,"date":"2026-05-08T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=598191"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:30:00","slug":"hungary-returns-ukrainian-bank-cash-gold-seized-during-election-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=598191","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Returns Ukrainian Bank Cash & Gold Seized During Election Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungary Returns Ukrainian Bank Cash & Gold Seized During Election Campaign<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Hungary has returned money and valuables belonging to Ukrainian state-owned bank Oschadbank after authorities seized the shipment earlier this year while it was being transported from Austria to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the return on Telegram on Wednesday, saying the assets had been seized by Hungarian special services in March, a move he claimed had been unjustified.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the funds and valuables of Oschadbank, seized by Hungarian special services in March of this year, were returned,\u201d <\/strong>Zelensky wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI thank Hungary for the constructive and civilized step,\u201d <\/strong>he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

The shipment, which reportedly included cash and gold belonging to Oschadbank\u2019s Ukrainian branch, was stopped by Hungarian authorities during a period of high tension between Budapest and Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Hungarian officials said at the time that the bank workers involved were suspected of money laundering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ukrainians were later released, but the authorities retained the seized assets until now.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred during Hungary\u2019s parliamentary election campaign last month, when Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n had made criticism of Ukraine a central part of his political messaging.<\/p>\n

His government was also locked in a dispute with Kyiv over the interruption of Russian oil supplies through Ukraine to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n, who had long clashed with Ukraine and its European backers over sanctions, aid, and energy policy,\u00a0was defeated in April\u2019s election<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

P\u00e9ter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza party, will now succeed him, and the new Hungarian parliament is expected to be sworn in on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The return of the Oschadbank assets follows a broader easing of tensions between Budapest and Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Despite multiple claims from Ukraine during the election campaign that the Druzhba pipeline could not simply resume due to damage inflicted by Russian shelling, Kyiv promptly resumed the flow of oil to Hungary and Slovakia shortly after Orb\u00e1n\u2019s election defeat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the same time, Budapest stopped blocking final approval of a \u20ac90 billion European Union loan to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 05\/08\/2026 – 03:30<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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