Béla Merkely Did Not Say that He Was an Owner of His Son's Company when It Won Public Funds Worth Hundreds of Millions Together with the University He Led.
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They are developing AI-based athlete avatars. The minister involved in the NKA scandal supported the project from his personal garden, most recently shortly before the elections.
The KinaviX project received funding three times by the unique decision of Balázs Hankó, sometimes by Semmelweis, sometimes under the name of the company, and sometimes jointly. The rector is a member of the board of trustees of the university foundation, so he should have declared the conflict of interest last year when his university signed a contract with the company. He has already left KinaviX, but his share was bought by Semmelweis’ compan…
Merkely created an extraordinary conflict of interest, as he was present in the funded project in four capacities: as university rector, as a member of the foundation's board of trustees, as chairman of the board of directors of the university company, and as co-owner of his son's company.
Béla Merkely, the rector of Semmelweis University, found himself in a conflict of interest after a company majority-owned by his son won nearly 600 million forints in state funding. Although the rector, as a member of the board of trustees of the foundation that maintains the institution, would have had a strict obligation to report on the family involvement, official steps were not taken or were taken with significant delays. Moreover, the proj…
The total of approximately 600 million forints was disbursed from the personal budget of former Minister for Culture and Innovation Balázs Hankó.
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