Secret service investigates head of defense college

Detectives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NNI) have asked a court to put the head of Hungary's armed-services training college and the managing director of international delivery company DHL Freight in pretrial detention on racketeering charges, the Budapest public prosecutor told Hungarian public television on Wednesday.

The court will decide about their detention on Thursday, said Sandor Ihasz.

Press reports suggest that the dean of the Miklos Zrinyi National Defence University approached the international delivery company, saying that he would be able to influence a police investigation into the alleged transport by the company of illegal drugs and weapons in its favour in return for the company's agreement to sever a contract with the defence college in order to make way for a new contract with a different security company.

The head of the college resisted arrest and sustained minor injuries, said NNI spokesman Laszlo Bartha earlier on Wednesday.

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