June 2024

Acts of corruption

The investigative normal prosecutor’s workplace instructed MTI in reference to the case that they’re conducting an investigation for corruption crimes, and on Tuesday morning at a number of places – together with the III. on the district municipality – procedural acts are or have been ongoing. The authority is anticipated to supply extra detailed data on the case on Wednesday, however our newspaper despatched inquiries to the KNYF, which acknowledged that the of their announcement printed to date other than “no different information may be disclosed presently”.

In March, there was an analogous motion in Óbuda, at which period 4 individuals had been detained, in accordance with our newspaper, amongst them is P. Gábor, the previous chief of workers and confidante of Kispest mayor Péter Gajda, who began doing enterprise within the districts led by the Democratic Coalition from 2020. In Óbuda, he took over the duties of publishing the native newspaper along with his firm.

In response to the well-founded suspicion, a person entered into fictitious contracts for the supply of providers and the acquisition of property by way of his firm in 2021 with the municipality of Óbuda and two enterprise firms designated by one of many suspect’s associates. The suspects took the sums of cash obtained as consideration for the fictional contracts in money and used them for corrupt functions.

The left parried

The III. The district municipality introduced on the time that neither official, municipal, nor institutional staff are affected by the process in reference to which the Central Investigative Prosecutor Basic’s Workplace requested paperwork from the municipality. Now, nonetheless, plainly the tide has turned.

Nonetheless, there have been indicators that Gergő Czeglédy was in large hassle. In Could, Balázs Bús, the native mayoral candidate of Fidesz-KDNP, requested Péter Ungár, LMP co-chairman, to intervene with Gergely Karácsony in order that Czeglédy doesn’t find yourself on the capital listing of the left-wing coalition, “as a result of he isn’t a good politician”.

The Karácsonys didn’t bow to the request: Gergő Czeglédy was in twenty seventh place on the left’s listing within the capital, however he didn’t make it to the final meeting. The deputy mayor in Óbuda additionally began as a personand gained the vote in electoral district No. 6.

Alexandra Szentkirályi, Fidesz-KDNP mayoral candidate, additionally responded to Czeglédy’s candidacy in Could. As he defined: he was a person of Óbuda deputy mayor Miklós Hagyó, who “obtained the bribe in a Nokia field, and was then arrested and sentenced.”

– The truth that the apple didn’t fall removed from the tree is confirmed by the truth that since 2019, Czeglédy has elevated his securities property by HUF 183 million and bought 5 new properties. That is precisely the corrupted Gyurcsány system, which Karácsony recreated on the Metropolis Corridor Szentkirályi identified.

Corruption in Óbuda

In 2021, Nameless additionally reported on the background of the Óbuda corruption case a number of occasions. Essentially the most highly effective of the recordings printed by the masked determine is when a recording made with a hidden digicam reveals Gábor P. and an unknown individual sitting in a automotive paying a number of million HUF in bribes.

The footage clearly reveals how the sums had been positioned in paper luggage. In response to the knowledge of the masked determine, III. it was cash redistributed from the orders of the district municipality.

Though on the time of the scandal the native authorities was nonetheless speaking regarding the truth that every of its contracts relies on common and actual efficiency, which excludes illegality or fictitiousness, in accordance with data from PestiSrácok, when the scandal broke 4 suspects had been arrested, along with P. Gábor from Kispest, the mayor, DK’s László Kiss, can be in large hassle. In response to the well-founded suspicion, the cash billed with out achievement and thus defrauded may be used within the election marketing campaign. In his testimony, one of many events concerned within the case claimed that the Óbuda mayor, László Kiss, additionally bought cash from the redistributed cash.

Gergő Czeglédy (Supply: NVI)