Hungary Raids Orban's Fidesz Party Servers in Graft Probe
Prosecutors said the raid is part of a criminal case over alleged embezzlement tied to the National Cultural Fund.
- On Tuesday, the Hungarian Fidesz opposition party reported that the country's prosecutor's office raided their office to secure the party's servers.
- Fidesz asserted on Facebook that the prosecutor's office intended to seize their entire communication system and databases, claiming the Tisza Party is attempting to legally disable them.
- This action follows Prime Minister Peter Magyar's April election victory, which ousted Viktor Orban and initiated a campaign to dismantle the former leader's established power bases.
- On Saturday, Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok signed a constitutional amendment passed by the Tisza Party that ended his own term, though he warned the reform harmed the rule of law in Hungary.
- Fidesz officials stated, "This has not happened in Hungary since the end of communism in 1990," emphasizing the historic severity of the ongoing political conflict.
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This week, prosecutors in Hungary requested a raid on the data center of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party. Orbán, who lost the election after 16 years in power, calls the new regime a tyranny. "This new political system is not a democracy," Orbán said, according to the AP.
The former Hungarian Prime Minister accuses the judiciary of a political investigation after a search of his party's databases Fidesz. The prosecutors claim to be acting in the context of an investigation of corruption linked to a public body suspected of embezzlement.
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Orbán Declares “Resistance” After Authorities Seize Fidesz Servers
Hungary’s largest opposition party, conservative Fidesz, has accused the centrist, pro-Brussels government of carrying out an unprecedented political attack after prosecutors seized parts of its communications infrastructure during an investigation linked to the National Cultural Fund (NKA). According to Hungarian media reports, investigators searched a data centre on Tuesday, July 21st in Budapest, where Fidesz servers are hosted, examining the…
Hungary’s former Premier Orban accuses prosecutors of politically targeting his party
Orban says authorities seized Fidesz' servers, membership records, internal communications system during search that might be linked to alleged misconduct in awarding of state subsidies
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