Recently, the production of drugs and the drug trade have changed, but the Hungarian police is keeping up with the distributors, said Bence Rétvári, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior (BM), in the current program of the M1 channel on Friday morning.
Bence Rétvári talked about the fact that the drug trade has also moved to the internet, most of the time there is no longer a personal meeting between the dealer and the drug addict, but drugs are smuggled using courier services and drones, for which buyers often pay with cryptocurrency. Drug dealers and buyers communicate with each other through encrypted channels on various chat programs. However, the Hungarian police are keeping up and are investigating various drug trafficking networks in the online space as well, he added.
He emphasized: the Hungarian police at all levels, “close to the ground”, are effective against dealers and giant networks, they initiate an average of twenty drug-related proceedings per day.
The relationship between the international law enforcement authorities is also good, as a result of which the Hungarian police seized 480 billion forints worth of drug material last November and caught a Brazilian drug lord wanted by Interpol in Hungary.
Bence Rétvári spoke about the importance of prevention, mentioning that several school programs organized by the police and other organizations try to draw children’s attention to the dangers.
The state secretary spoke of the summer as a particularly dangerous period, indicating that this is why last summer, in a three-week operation, more than three thousand police uncovered a drug trafficking network, and more than seven hundred people were arrested during this period.
Orsolya Ferencz, the minister responsible for space research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, recalled: the blockage of the heroin route in Afghanistan brought about a dramatic change in drug production. That’s when designer drugs “exploded”, which chemists experiment with in laboratories, and then “release” the drugs into society, the effects of which are unknown neither to the distributors, nor to the consumers, nor to the doctors. This is a human experiment, and the authorities and drug manufacturers are constantly competing with each other, he said.
The ministerial commissioner called the drug liberalization process that has already started in Germany dangerous, adding that it is right that Hungary does not want to start down this road.
(MTI)
