Two Hungarian men found guilty in 90s murder case
The Budapest Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the prison sentences of Tamás Gyárfás, the former head of Hungary’s swimming federation, and Tamas Portik, the one-time head of an oil company involved in illicit deals in the nineties, for their involvement in the murder of Hungarian media mogul János Fenyő in 1998.
Both Gyárfás and Portik were found guilty of instigating the murder. Gyárfás, who was found guilty of complicity in the case by the first-instance court last year, was sentenced to seven years in a maximum security prison, and Portik to life in prison. In Gyárfás’s case, the court changed the first-instance ruling by omitting an earliest possible date for his parole.
According to the verdict, Gyárfás commissioned Portik to kill Fenyő, his business rival. Portik hired Slovak criminal Jozef Rohac to carry out the murder, who then killed Fenyő on February 11, 1998.
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