The US embassy in Budapest has given the foreign ministry a written answer about the Hungarian who was shot dead in Iraq late last month, deputy spokesman Lajos Kohári told Echo TV Thursday evening. Earlier in the day Foreign Minister Péter Balázs had requested information on the killing from the chargé d’affaires at the US embassy.
The man, a lorry driver for private contractor Toifor, was shot dead in the Baghdad suburb of Taiji. The assumed killer, a US soldier, was detained the same day.
The embassy said the soldier faces murder charges, an investigation is underway and the US will inform Hungary once it is completed.
Kohári noted that Hungary has not been told whether the US will financially compensate the man’s family, nor why it had only been informed a month after his death.
Meanwhile the late contractor’s family has announced that it will launch a $1.5 million compensation lawsuit, represented by lawyer György Bárándy.
