Couple charged for returning bottles with photocopied labels

Ferenc Szanka said that they are accused of fraud committed using the party’s information system.

The defendants obtained non-returnable plastic bottles from a department store in Hódmezővásárhely in November 2024. According to the indictment, they then made copies of the label of a returnable bottle in a photocopying salon and then glued them to the bottles.

The defendants then took the prepared bottles to the city’s return vending machines in several installments, and with them obtained a shopping voucher worth 8,000 thousand forints.

The Hódmezővásárhely District Court will decide on the guilt of the accused, the Deputy Prosecutor General announced.