Hungarian hitman says he has information about sex worker's murder in Amsterdam
Hungarian hitman Caba Dér has information about the person who brutally murdered sex worker Betty Szabó in Amsterdam in 2009. He will share the details with the Dutch police once he has a written guarantee that he will receive the 30,000 euro reward offered by the Dutch authorities, which he intends to use for charity, his lawyer Krisztián Gulyás told De Telegraaf.
Dér is currently serving a life sentence in Hungary for two contract killings, including one in Amsterdam. He spoke to the Hungarian police on Tuesday after hearing Dutch police’s campaign to try and solve Szabó’s murder. “Dér gave them a profile of the perpetrator. However, he said that he wants to share specific details with the Dutch police,” Gulyás said.
Betty Szabó was brutally murdered in a sex work space on the Achterzijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam’s Red Light District in February 2009, three months after she had given birth to her first child. Her killer stabbed her at least 70 times. In an attempt to solve this case, the police displayed a hologram of the young woman in a window across the street from where she was murdered, appealing for information. The police have received dozens of tips, but not yet the “golden tip,” a spokesperson told the Telegraaf.
The Amsterdam police have submitted a request for legal assistance to Hungary and hope to be able to speak to Dér soon. However, the police stressed that the reward of 30,000 euros will only be paid for the golden tip that leads to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.
Lawyer Gulyás previously told the Telegraaf that Dér has information about Szabó’s murder from the time he spent in Amsterdam while preparing a hit on the Croatian drug dealer Ivan Serdarusic. Dér killed Serdarusic in an Italian restaurant on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam on 30 July 2018.
Dér was arrested in Prague in 2019 and extradited to Hungary, where he was tried for the Amsterdam murder and another murder in Budapest in September 2018. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a possibility of release after 40 years.
