Eastern Europe Edition

The Strange Tale of $82 Million Heist on a Hungarian Highway

Relations between Budapest and Kyiv were already frosty. They just got chillier.
The seized euros and bars of gold.Source: Government of Hungary

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It might have been a scene from a TV series. Two armored trucks loaded with more than $80 million of gold and banknotes were stopped, the couriers held and the money and precious metal seized.