Tag: Gyarfas Tamas

A Budapest court on Wednesday sentenced the former head of the Hungarian Swimming Association, Tamas Gyarfas, to seven years in prison for inciting the murder of a business rival in 1998. Media tycoon Janos Fenyo was killed in his car with a silenced submachine gun at a busy Budapest intersection on February 11, 1998, marking…

Two leading swimming federations – the FINA world body and the European LEN – have rejected the resignation of Hungarian media entrepreneur Tamás Gyárfás from their boards until a court ruling surrounding his murder charge has been made. When asked by Magyar Nemzet, both FINA director Cornel Marculescu and LEN president Paolo Barell said they…

A former Hungarian swimming executive was charged Tuesday with ordering a deadly hit on a business rival in Budapest over two decades ago. Tamas Gyarfas, who was former vice president of the Lausanne-based International Swimming Federation’s Bureau, denied the charges when he was first detained back in April 2018. He was then released from jail on bail. Gyarfas’s lawyer…

Hungarian police have arrested an executive at world swimming’s governing body for the murder of a media tycoon in Budapest 20 years ago but suspect Tamas Gyarfas is innocent, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Police have never resolved who ordered the murder of Hungarian mogul Janos Fenyo who was sprayed with submachine gun bullets at…

When Hungarian media tycoon Janos Fenyo was gunned down in his car by a dozen submachine gun bullets in downtown Budapest two decades ago it shocked the country and police never found who ordered the murder. Now police have detained Tamas Gyarfas, an executive at world swimming’s governing body, on suspicion of ordering the murder,…