Seven people charged with abducting, detaining and severely abusing a man in Budapest
Due to an outstanding debt, last summer, on the instructions of a 48-year-old man (he gave the loan), a man was abducted from his home, and then a XVII. He was detained and abused in a district car repair shop and demanded a ransom of HUF 20 million. Seven people have now been indicted in the case, MTI was informed by the General Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday.
The seven defendants threatened the man with killing and hurting his family and then breaking his tibia with a wooden stick so that he could not escape. The man was unable to pay the amount claimed, but promised not to file a complaint and cite a motorcycle accident as the cause of his injuries. So, finally, the next day by car to the XVI. district, was taken to the Csömöri út overpass and exposed there.
The man went home but was later hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, but even here came the 48-year-old man and one of his companions to threaten to abuse his family.
The Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office filed charges in the case for kidnapping, kidnapping causing particularly serious harm, as well as life-threatening bodily harm. The Prosecutor General’s Office proposed the imposition of imprisonment or imprisonment.