Hungarian Olympic athlete posed as a cancer patient, defrauding millions

A Hungarian Olympic athlete pretended to have cancer and cheated her ex-boyfriend out of millions of forints.

Tamás Kovács met the former sportswoman in 2017, when she returned to Hungary after a long stay abroad, Blikk said.

“Initially, the story was that she had a brain tumour, so she asked for a loan for the operation. I gave it to her, of course. Then it turned out that she was at a stage where it was not possible to operate, but medication could improve her condition, so she asked me for more money. That’s when I gave it to her. Of course we always signed a loan contract, the collateral being her father’s house abroad. She told me that the old man was doing very poorly and was expected to die soon,” said Tamás.

After his father’s alleged death, she promised to get his inheritance soon after the probate hearing, which would involve following the necessary steps for filing probate. To make the story even more credible, she even forwarded a letter from an alleged lawyer to Tamás, assuring him that she would soon pay him the debt. This never happened.