Péter Farkas (born 14 August 1968) is a Hungarian

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and Olympic champion in

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Olympics

Farkas competed at the

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where he received a gold medal in

, the middleweight class."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Wrestling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)

Criminal conviction

On 10 December 2009 he was convicted ''in absentia'' to seven years imprisonment for growing

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. At the time of the bust in 2004, his was the largest operation ever recorded in the country. He was thought to be hiding in

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on counterfeit documents, but was ultimately arrested in

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. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in August 2014. Stemming from his case, the rules of Hungarian Olympic medalists' lifetime annuity were changed to require keeping a clean criminal record, and Farkas was stripped of his.

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