About two weeks ago, the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office filed charges once morest fashion designer Zoltán Herczeg. As reported by Index, following two years, the prosecutor’s office proposes a prison sentence once morest the fashion designer for drug possession.
Zoltán Herczeg announced in a Facebook post that he had received the indictment.
Today I received the official indictment from the prosecutor’s office, in which they propose a 2 YEAR 8 MONTH PRISON SENTENCE and a 3 year ban from public affairs
– said the fashion designer, adding that he will also have to pay the criminal costs, which are already approaching three million forints.
Earlier, when asked by Index, Ferenc Rab, the prosecutor’s spokesman, stated that the prosecutor’s office is proposing a prison sentence for the fashion designer for the crime of drug possession, while the main defendant in the case, a 61-year-old man, is for drug trafficking.
According to the essence of the indictment, a 61-year-old man from Budapest sold marijuana to his friend, the other defendant in the case, on several occasions starting in the spring of 2022. On October 21, 2022, the seller sold 91 grams of marijuana to his friend for HUF 350,000. The total amount of drugs handed over exceeds the upper limit of the small amount, but does not reach the lower limit of the significant amount. The 61-year-old man himself consumed small amounts of marijuana and cocaine.
As previously reported by Index, the well-known fashion designer Zoltán Herczeg was arrested on October 21, 2022, following drug-suspicious substances were found in his apartment. During the interrogation, the fashion designer admitted to drug use, but denied that he had distributed the drug.
In December, he filed an appeal for his release, as well as for a lighter coercive measure, which was rejected by the court, so he also spent Christmas behind bars. His case was retried in February 2023. At the initiative of the investigative authority, the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office proposed the extension of Zoltán Herczeg’s arrest until April 23, following which he was placed under house arrest.
In an interview in January of this year, he announced that he would give up fashion design in the future and would like to work on home renovations and the promotion of sustainability and climate protection.
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