The former leader of the now-defunct New Hungarian Guard, which had close connections to the radical nationalist Jobbik party, has been accused by police of organising the trafficking of illegal migrants to the Hungarian capital Budapest.

Róbert Kiss and an associate were caught in the act by Hungary’s counter-terror police unit (TEK) in the early hours of Tuesday morning when they were agreeing on the transportation of five Syrian migrants at the settlement of Röszke, on the Serbian border. Kiss was taken to a police station in the nearby city of Szeged and accused of assisting illegal residence in Hungary. Footage shot on the scene by TEK suggests that Kiss and his associate earned thousands of euros from illegally transporting migrants.

Kiss was first leader of the Hungarian Guard, the now-defunct paramilitary wing of Hungary’s second-largest party Jobbik, in Pest county before becoming the organisation’s national captain and later founder and head of the New Hungarian Guard and the National Guard. The Hungarian Guard Association was headed for a time by Gábor Vona, the current chairman of the Jobbik party, which takes the most hard-line approach against immigration among Hungary’s party. The uniformed paramilitary organisation was dissolved by a court order in July 2009, after it was found to carry the potential of causing fear among the population.

The extremist was subsequently handed a two-year suspended sentence for inciting against an official provision after he repeatedly attempted to reorganise the dissolved movement. His “career” in the Hungarian Guard came to an end when footage emerged of married Kiss kissing an unknown woman.

via index.hu

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