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New piece on my Substack: In March 2026, #Hungary 's counter-terror police hijacked a bank convoy on its way to #Ukraine: €70m in cash and gold, seized weeks before an election #Orbán badly needed. We now know the order came from his own Cabinet Office. 🧵 1/4

It took dozens of officials to pull off. Customs, intelligence, the tax authority. Most must have known it was unlawful. They did it anyway, because loyalty had always kept them safe. Five weeks later, Orbán lost. 2/4

The protection evaporated in a month. The files they'd signed did not. And the files are the problem: "following orders" hasn't been a defence since Nuremberg. 3/4