BUDAPEST, FEB 8: 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 one of the countrys most infamous mob hits.
The Budapest regional court found 74-year-old Gyarfas guilty of "incitement to premeditated murder".
The verdict in the high-profile case was read out amid tight security in court.
During the trial, Gyarfas said he had "nothing to do" with Fenyos death, which he said had "ruined" his life.
The murderer, a Slovakian hitman called Jozef Rohac, was jailed for life in 2012. —AFP
