Hungarian PM Questioned as Suspect in Phone Theft Case
Magyar gave a brief statement and denied theft as prosecutors examined a 2024 nightclub incident that led to the recovery of the phone from the Danube.
- On Wednesday, Prime Minister Peter Magyar appeared before the Central Investigating Chief Prosecutor for questioning regarding an alleged 2024 phone theft incident, following Parliament's September 28 decision to suspend his immunity.
- Authorities allege that on June 21, 2024, at a Budapest nightclub, Magyar seized a mobile phone from a man filming him and threw the device into the Danube, where divers later recovered it as evidence.
- Parliament voted 139-0 on September 28 to lift Magyar's immunity, which he requested himself to contest what he termed a political character assassination, while prosecutors maintain his conduct fulfills the legal definition of theft.
- Magyar confirmed on Facebook that he attended the pre-arranged questioning, provided a brief statement, and did not admit to the offence, adding the comment: "Back to work."
- This proceeding is the first criminal case involving a sitting Hungarian prime minister, while the government continues investigations into former officials Balazs Hanka and Miklos Sesztak over alleged corruption during Viktor Orban's 16 years in power.
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At Friday's government press conference, Péter Magyar read out several details from the investigation into his alleged phone theft case. He said that even the prosecution expert did not see in the recordings that he threw the phone into the Danube.
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Hungary's central investigation team (KNYF) heard Prime Minister Peter Magyar on Wednesday evening about the 2024 incident in which he was suspected of stealing a phone, announced the chief executive in a Facebook post.
One and a half weeks after the waiver of his parliamentary immunity, the Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has been heard by the prosecutor's office. It is about a accusation of theft. The head of government deals very openly with the Causa and is quite relaxed. He denies the allegations, at the same time he criticizes the criminal authorities of the country for the too slow investigation against his predecessor Viktor Orbán.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar was questioned as a suspect in a case involving the alleged theft of a mobile phone. The questioning was conducted on October 7 by the Central Chief Investigative Prosecutor's Office after parliament lifted his parliamentary immunity. "I made a brief statement and did not admit to committing the crime I am accused of," Magyar said after the questioning. The Hungarian prosecutor's office said he did not admit…
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