Hungarian PM Questioned as Suspect in Phone Theft Case
Prosecutors say the phone was recovered from the Danube and its data is now being used as evidence in the theft case.
- On Wednesday, Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar appeared in Budapest before the Central Investigating Chief Prosecutor's Office regarding an alleged June 21, 2024, phone theft incident.
- Parliament suspended Magyar's immunity on September 28 in an extraordinary session, enabling prosecutors to pursue the case involving a phone allegedly thrown into the Danube.
- Divers recovered the handset shortly after the nightclub incident, and authorities are now using the extracted data as evidence in the theft investigation.
- No sitting Hungarian prime minister has previously faced criminal proceedings, making this case historically significant. Magyar has denied committing the alleged offense.
- Separately, the government is pursuing corruption investigations into former culture and innovation minister Balazs Hanka and former development minister Miklos Sesztak, involving over 1,000 funding applications and alleged misuse of HUF17bn.
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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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