Hungary Recovers $20 Million Cash in Probe of Orban Minister
Officials said 12 treasury workers spent eight hours counting the haul, which included euros and U.S. dollars hidden in forests and buildings.
- On Friday, Hungarian authorities recovered about $18 million in hidden cash buried in forests and concealed in agricultural buildings as part of an investigation into former National Development Minister Mikl Seszták.
- Seszták is suspected of accepting more than $37.2 million in bribes and kickbacks connected to state vehicle procurements and construction projects during Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16 years in office.
- Investigators found "large quantities of cash buried in forests, concealed in agricultural buildings, warehouses and a residential property," with twelve Hungarian State Treasury employees spending eight hours counting the funds.
- Prime Minister Peter Magyar stated the discovery "officially marks the end of the Fidesz-KDNP mafia," calling Orbán a "proven mafia boss" and labeling Fidesz a "criminal organization."
- Orbán, whose far-right Fidesz lost to Magyar's center-right European Tisza in April, has decried these investigations as political "tyranny," while authorities pursue other corruption cases involving the Central Bank governor and alleged misuse of 288 billion forints.
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The former Hungarian Minister of Development Seszták found more than 17 million euros in cash as part of corruption investigations. It was buried in forests, barns and warehouses. Sesták belonged to the Orbán government.
Created this summer, the new anti-corruption agency wins a stark victory against the fallen elite of Viktor Orbán, caught up in several cases since his defeat in the elections this spring. The brother of the former Prime Minister, meanwhile, sleeps in prison.
Buried in the forest, hidden in warehouses: Hungary's anti-corruption agency has found cash in millions in an investigation against a former minister of the Orbán government – and counted for hours.
Stacks of banknotes placed on the floor of a warehouse, boxes full of cash and agents engaged in digging in the woods. These are the images spread by the Hungarian authorities after the discovery of nearly 20 million dollars, recovered in the context of a corruption investigation involving Miklós Seszták, former Minister of National Development in the government of Viktor Orbán. The money was hidden in several places in the country: part had bee…
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