László Vizoviczki, the former owner of Hajógyári Island convicted of bribing the police and defrauding the budget, has been released from prison, the Hungarian Nation.
As the newspaper found out, Vizoviczki’s two convictions were included in the total sentence a few years ago, and thanks to a motion for legal remedy, another decision was made in this regard last December. Then the man’s total sentence was shortened to eight years and a few months, and since the middle of March he has been a free man, since the period he spent in arrest and house arrest (under criminal supervision according to the new criminal procedure law) were credited to him.
Paid police officers were also convicted
László Vizoviczki was taken from his office by the police in May 2012. In 2016, someone paid the largest bail in Hungary at the time, 250 million forints, so that the businessman could get out of pretrial detention.
As reported by the Index, last year the Capital Court sentenced the high-ranking former police officers accused of corruption in the Vizoviczki case with a suspended prison sentence of 1 year.
On August 21, 2014, the Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had filed charges in the cases of László Vizoviczki, who ran nightclubs on Hajógyári Island and in the city center, who became known in the police bribery scandal, in which 33 senior officials were also involved.
The defendants included seven former police officers, including five former senior police officers, a former fire captain, a senior lieutenant of the financial inspectorate, a municipal civil servant and a public health inspector.
(Cover photo: László Vizoviczki at the Capital Court on April 24, 2017. Photo: Zsolt Szigetváry / MTI)
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