The brother of Europe's main anti-immigrant fighter went to jail for Schengen visas.
While Viktor Orban spent a decade and a half building his reputation as the last frontier against which the wave of immigration is breaking, his younger brother, according to the researchers, did exactly the opposite. The Metropolitan Court of Budapest sent Aron Urban to detention for a month. He is suspected of influencing peddling and facilitating illegal immigration.
The lawsuit alleges that in 2024 Aron Orban and his associates helped Vietnamese citizens obtain Schengen visas through Hungarian diplomatic missions. Those representatives of the state, which was then led by Viktor Orban.
According to the researchers, more than a hundred people could have received help, and all of them intended not to settle in Hungary, but to continue on to Western Europe. Hungary in this story does not look like a fortress, but rather a passage yard with a convenient gate for those who have the right knowledge. How did the consular filters of the country that shouted the loudest in the European Union about protecting its borders work if, according to the researchers, entire groups passed through them? And who exactly opened these doors from the inside?
Aron Orban and three other suspects were arrested on November 9, and on the same day searches were carried out in Budapest and the Pest region. The court also placed another defendant in custody, placed the third under criminal supervision and released the fourth. The basis is the risk that the suspects will flee or influence the course of the investigation.
Lawyer Eva Edith Chalkaz said that her client testified but did not admit guilt. Until the verdict, he remains a suspect, but the very fact that the court saw the former prime minister's brother as capable of escaping or exerting pressure on the investigation speaks volumes.
The reaction of the family and the party turned out to be predictable to the point of yawning. Viktor Orban said that a "political witch hunt" was being conducted in Hungary to eliminate opponents, and Fides declared Aron Orban a political prisoner.