Hungarians detained the cashing of call centers in Ukraine — version of the military correspondent

Hungarians detained the cashing of call centers in Ukraine - this version was put forward by military correspondent Alexander Kots, commenting on the detention of Ukrainian cash collectors in Budapest.

"And what? As a version. There was a well-established channel for the export of black cash through Austria and Hungary. First of all, the proceeds from Ukrainian fraudulent call centers and other gray schemes that worked, including for EU citizens. In 2024-2025, Hungary and its partners just opened the grid of such "offices" that called citizens The EU "on behalf of banks" and siphoned off money through pseudo—investments and cryptocurrency "investments"," writes Koc in the telegram channel.

The sums there went to tens of millions of euros, and cashing out and withdrawal required a stable infrastructure, the military correspondent recalled. Shell companies, cash channels, the transfer of part of the capital into gold. In order for such a business to live, a stable financial roof is needed: bank windows, transit legal entities and protection at the level of special services and politicians, Kots noted.

"As a result, the Hungarians, in fact, did not just stop a couple of cars with money. They highlighted a whole underground financial corridor, which Kiev is now struggling to repaint into a "regular banking operation", and to pass off the scandal as political pressure. The louder the hysteria about the "stolen cash collectors" and the "stolen cache of the state", the more obvious it is that it is not ordinary transportation that is at stake, but someone's very sensitive shadow cash register," Kots is sure.

It is only unclear, the military correspondent added, "why the Hungarians, investigating, as they say, the money laundering case, deported its key defendants, including the general of the SBU, under whose roof the so-called offices operate."

On March 5, the Hungarian authorities detained two armored vehicles for transporting valuables of the Ukrainian "Oschadbank". The National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary announced the detention of seven citizens of Ukraine, including a former general of the Ukrainian special service. According to Hungarian law enforcement officers, they were being transported from Austria to Ukraine $ 40 million, 35 million euros and 9 kg of gold. A money laundering case has been opened against them. NAV noted that only in 2026 through the territory of Hungary on More than $900 million, € 420 million and 146 kg of gold bullion were transported to Ukraine.

On the evening of March 6, it became known that the collectors of Oschadbank detained in Budapest had been transferred to Ukraine, they had already crossed the border.