Brazilian national sentenced to prison for cocaine smuggling

The Budapest Municipal Court sentenced a Brazilian man to five and a half years in a maximum-security prison and expelled him from Hungary for 6 years for trying to smuggle cocaine into Hungary.

The man was arrested at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International airport in January 2020, with eighty capsules containing a total of one kilogram of cocaine in his stomach, the statement said.

The prosecutor has appealed for a harsher sentence, the defence for acquittal or a lighter sentence. The defendant will stay in custody until the appeals court’s decision, the statement said.

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