Hungarian mystery: an ammunition production line vanished in thin air

We have recently come across a rather odd mystery in Hungary. In a year, 75 million cartridges may be produced on the production line, but it is not known where they are delivered. The company demands compensation now. How’s it going to proceed? 

Mysterious factory

Csaba Papp, the managing director of Borsodi General Engineering Plant Ltd (BS-GÉP) shared details with 24.hu regarding the complicated case. “The GRU agent Russians, who have been forced out of the country by the intelligence services, may sue me in Budapest for revealing where a NATO-compatible ammunition production line is, which I imported from Turkey, also a NATO member, while some NER acrobat has been profiting from it for years,” Papp said.

In one shift, 25 million rounds of 7.62 x 39 millimetre Kalashnikov ammunition are produced by the production line that vanished. Not only its manager, but also the competent authorities do not know where they can be located. Since a bullet costs about USD 2, up to 75 million rounds could come off the line in three shifts. So in one year, USD 150 million, or HUF 52 billion in revenue, has disappeared.

The series was imported from Turkey by BS-GÉP. It was intended for the gunpowder and ammunition factory in Balatonfűzfő, but it did not end up there.

The case of the phantom factory and the bullet production line even turned into a lawsuit. The proceedings brought by Csaba Papp on suspicion of budgetary fraud have been closed. The court found no budgetary damage or other debts to the state. For this reason, Papp would like to claim the benefit, as he has not received it so far.