British Timeshare Operator Arrested by Hungarian Authorities

Accused of  Timeshare fraud, a British businessman faces charges in Hungary

A Hungarian timeshare operation run by Britons Michael Turner and Jason McGoldrick collapsed in 2005. Hungarian prosecutors used European Arrest Warrants to detain the pair, saying the company's creditors were the victims of fraud, but both men have denied any wrongdoing.

Mr Turner described how, when he was first extradited on November 2, 2009, he was led through a busy airport in handcuffs on a dog-style lead and imprisoned for four months at the notorious Budapest Penitentiary Institute, where he was kept in his cell for 23 hours a day. He was released, with no explanation, on February 26, 2010 - having only been interviewed once by police - and returned to Britain.

Now Mr Turner, who has already spent four months without charge in a Hungarian jail,  is claiming British judges should be given more power to test the evidence in cases before Britons are extradited under the European Arrest Warrant.

The 29-year-old businessman from Corfe Castle, Dorset, must return to Budapest next week to answer allegations over a failed timeshare company which collapsed in 2005.

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