Hungarian authorities said the funds seized in the case may be linked to corruption schemes involving Ukraine’s Oschadbank.
Zoltan Kovacs, Hungary’s State Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Relations, said on X that the country’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) had presented additional investigative materials.
Hungarian authorities released a video showing Ukrainian Oschadbank cash couriers stamping documents inside a restroom. They were later detained along with the money they were transporting, which remains under seizure.
“Investigators found that the armored vehicles were carrying freshly printed euros and dollars that had never entered circulation and were tied to several banks, including Ukraine’s Oschadbank, as well as Polish and Gibraltarian financial institutions. Among the evidence is a video that allegedly shows a former major general of Ukrainian intelligence falsifying documents in a gas station restroom while his associates discuss payments linked to corruption,” Kovacs wrote.
Update
Commenting on the accusations from Hungary and the video it published, Oschadbank said the footage had been falsified. The state-owned bank claims it was recorded a year earlier—on March 10, 2025, not in March 2026.