2 kg marijuana parcel from Portugal leads to 2 arrests in Budapest
Budapest police arrested two men after a parcel labelled as clothing from Portugal was found to hold more than 2 kg of marijuana. Officers traced the package to a 34-year-old Chinese man and detained him with a 25-year-old Vietnamese companion on 2 November.
Budapest police identified the recipient of a parcel sent from Portugal to
Hungary as a 34-year-old Chinese man.[1][2][3][4]On the morning of 2 November officers
caught him in his car in Budapest’s District X.[1][2][3][4]A 25-year-old Vietnamese
man was also in the car, and a court had already been seeking him over an
earlier offence.[1][5][3][4]Investigators detained both men.[1][5][3]Rapid drug tests on
the two men were both positive, indicating cocaine in one of them and
amphetamine in the other.[1][2][3][4]Both men were questioned on suspicion of the
felony of drug trafficking and then taken into custody, and the court ordered
their detention at the police’s request.[1][2][3][6][4]
The parcel had been stopped at a Budapest control on 28 October after being
declared only with the Portuguese word “roupas”, meaning clothing.[1][2][3][6][4]Inside,
the authorities found more than 2 kilograms of green plant material that rapid
testing and a preliminary expert examination identified as marijuana.[1][5][3][4]Police then searched the Chinese man’s car and flat, seizing more than 100 grams
of white powder that rapid testing indicated was cocaine, along with tablets and
pink powder whose exact composition the police statement did not report.[1][2][3][4]Police estimated the total black-market value of all the seized drugs at more
than 15 million forints.[1][2][3][4]
The cannabis travelled by parcel post from Portugal to Hungary.[1][5][3]
The parcel was held up at an official inspection after arriving from Portugal.[3]
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The marijuana weight is stated only as more than 2 kilograms, so figures record the stated lower bound of 2 kg.
The reported value of more than 15 million forints covers all seized drugs together, so it is kept in the text and omitted from cannabis value figures.
The cocaine-indicating white powder, tablets and pink powder are non-cannabis substances mentioned only to explain the mixed seizure and are excluded from cannabis quantities.
The article does not say which of the two men tested positive for cocaine and which for amphetamine.
Hungarian letartóztatás is rendered as court-ordered detention, meaning pre-trial custody, not a final sentence.
The parcel was stopped on 28 October and the arrests followed on 2 November; the incident date uses the arrest date and details record the span as a period.
Only one accessible source was found after searching in Hungarian and English for the agency account and other coverage.
September and October seizures in Zugló and Nyírbátor mentioned in the same article are separate events left out of this report.
The Zsaruhírek account describes the 25-year-old companion in the car as a Chinese man, while the Budapest Police Headquarters statement calls him a Vietnamese man, as does the Index report; the report keeps the police version.
The reports give no total weight for the cocaine, tablets and pink powder beyond more than 100 grams of white powder, and no cannabis-specific value.
The Infostart headline and lead say the parcel of marijuana was worth more than 15 million forints, while the Budapest Police Headquarters statement as reported by the outlets already cited gives that figure for all seized drugs together; the report keeps the police version.
Infostart says the search of the Chinese man's car and flat found more than 100 grams of cocaine and tablets, and does not mention the pink powder that the police statement described.
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