Viktor Orbán’s brother detained in people-smuggling investigation, Hungarian PM says

Arrest made by anti-corruption body set up to investigate alleged graft during former PM’s 16-year rule

Hungarian authorities have detained the brother of Viktor Orbán as part of a people-smuggling ⁠investigation, the prime minister, Péter Magyar, has said.

The Hungarian anti-graft body, the national asset protection and recovery office (NVVH), said in ⁠a statement it and ⁠police had detained four people and searched homes in Budapest and Pest county.

“Three ex-ministers of Orbán are already in custody,” Magyar said in Berlin, where he was giving a speech. “Already his brother today ⁠went to custody,” he added, referring to the former prime minister’s sibling, Aron, 49.