Hungarian Officials Arrest Two Persons on Involvement with Trafficking in Nuclear Materials

On August 30, 1994, the Hungarian police reported that they arrested two Hungarian nationals for trying to sell 2kg of radioactive material, believed to be uranium fuel rods from the former Soviet Union. Hungarian intelligence service agents had followed the two suspects outside the country before arresting them in a Budapest hotel carpark on August 29, 1994 as they tried to sell the nuclear material for $40,000 per kg...(more)