There was no trial, Gábor Kaleta did not meet with journalists.

Gábor Kaleta was sentenced to one year, two years, six months and a fine of 540,000 forints by the Central District Court of Buda last Thursday, Blikk learned.

The former Peruvian ambassador was originally due to be tried in March, but the courts were also closed due to the coronavirus epidemic, so his trial also had to be postponed. Therefore, Kaleta also did not meet journalists in the court corridors. The omission of the trial was possible thanks to a government decree issued at the time of the emergency, which, in the case of less serious crimes, allows the court to make its decision in the form of a judgment simply from the case file.

The decision is not final, the prosecutor’s office requested that a hearing be held against the accused, for aggravation, the capital’s attorney general’s office told the newspaper.

Kaleta fell in the spring of 2019 when US authorities. USA They installed an international network of pedophiles. More than 19,000 images of child pornography were seized from the former ambassador’s computing devices. Subsequently, the diplomat was secretly taken home, deprived of his post as ambassador with effect from April last year without justification. The story was published by index.hu in February this year, but Kaleta was already charged in November with child pornography.

According to Blikk, Kaleta drew the attention of authorities in a U.S.-led investigation into users of a South Korean pedophile site after it closed in March 2018 and its operator was arrested. The closure of the South Korean side was a year before the fall of Kaleta, and the recognition against the Hungarian ambassador had been going on for months.

Kaleta has been employed by the State Department since 2001, never failing during screenings. The government did not disclose how many times it was examined, but confirmed that, in any event, it had undergone the five-year evaluation at the time of its appointment.


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According to the Index, U.S. authorities were able to contact then-Peruvian Ambassador Gábor Kaleta, who was indicted by the Attorney General’s Office in late November 2019 for possessing pedophile content during the investigation of users of a South Korean pedophile site.