Budapest – Police arrested the lawyer who blackmailed and robbed his own client

The perpetrator acquired hundreds of millions of HUF in assets, diamonds, cash, and real estates.

As the Hungarian news portal 24.hu reports, the case started in 2014 when the 43-year-old lawyer was entrusted by an inventive businessman to perform the legal duties of his company that distributed cosmetic products. The lawyer recognised that his client was distrustful with the authorities; therefore decided to take advantage in a fraudulent manner.

The lawyer made his client believe that a house search would be conducted in his property and asked the businessman to give him all the data mediums, containing business and personal secrets.

After the fictive house search was not conducted – which was only made up by the lawyer – he did not return the data carriers, but deceived his client, telling the businessman that they had been thrown into the Danube to protect him.

In the next years, the lawyer set up several companies at the businessman’s expense that were only partly known by his client and attributed more than 100,000 EUR from the inventor using cash flows between the companies.