Belgian federal prosecutors believe the men may have links to the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people and left hundreds injured.
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Abdeslam was stopped in the Hungary-Austria edge in September followed by two guys with fake IDs bearing Samir Bouzid and the names Soufiane Kayal.
Both men, the office said, used fake Belgian identity cards to cross the border with Abdeslam, whose identity also was checked there.
Spurred into action by the attacks in Paris, EU interior ministers moved to grant law-enforcement agencies access to information gathered by airlines like names, travel dates, itinerary, credit cards and contact details. Following the attacks, Belgian police carried out a series of anti-terrorist operations.
“We do not have information that can be made public”, Hungary’s counterterrorism police TEK told AFP by email Thursday.
The ID of Samar Bouzid was also used to rent a house in the town of Auvelias in southern Belgium that Belgian media reports say was used a hideout to plan the Paris attacks.
The other false identity card, for Samir Bouzid, was used four days after the attacks to transfer 750 euros at a Western Union office in Brussels to Hasna Aitboulahcen, cousin of the suspected mastermind of the atrocity, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Abaaoud and Boulahcen died on November 18 in a shootout with police in St. Denis, a northern Paris suburb.
Another suspect is Lazez Abraimi, in whose auto police found two handguns and traces of blood. The unidentified man detonated a suicide bomb during that raid, authorities said.
Investigators say Abdeslam may have driven the suicide bombers at the Stade de France to their target on the night of the Paris attacks. Another was held the same day in Brussels’ Molenbeek area.
Mr Sapin said tracking even small sums could turn out to be “crucial” in the fight against terror, if such data were cross-referenced with other parts of any investigation.
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Earlier on Friday, December 4 the Paris cafe La Bonne Biere became the first of the venues targeted during the co-ordinated assaults to reopen its doors.
