Hundreds of billions of forints worth of grain were stolen and poured onto the world market.

The strange game of one superpower is already seriously affecting international trade through uncontrollable stock movements. A precarious situation is emerging globally in the grain markets, just look at the situation with corn. While Europe – and Hungary within it – suffers from the consequences of an unprecedented drought, the United States, Brazil, and Argentina already anticipated a record corn harvest for this year in May. Despite this, stocks will dwindle due to the growing demand for animal feed and ethanol production. Grain therefore remains an important product on the world market, it is no coincidence that it has been a subject of debate for years in the Russian-Ukrainian war that has been ongoing for over three and a half years. We were still in the midst of an armed conflict when, in November 2023, the world press reported that Russia had looted approximately $1 billion (nearly 340 billion forints) worth of grain from Ukraine and sold it on the world market without a ...