The prosecutor's office has requested legal assistance from the United States and Switzerland to find out who might be behind the Devil's Advocate blog. Before the 2019 municipal elections, a video about the then mayor of Győr was published. Proceedings were initiated for extortion and misuse of personal data. According to assumptions, this investigation can be helped by the American and Swiss authorities, the M1 News reported.

The money flows financing the left-wing expiring portal called The Devil's Advocate lead to the United States and Switzerland, Pesti Srácok . The portal knows that the investigators found the blog's server in America, and the bank account from which the posts advertised on Facebook were paid for in Switzerland.

Before the 2019 municipal elections, a video was leaked on the blog of the author, who calls himself only the "devil's advocate" and does not accept his identity, which was related to the Fidesz mayor of Győr at the time. The National Investigation Agency is conducting proceedings in the case for extortion and misuse of personal data.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Capital City confirmed to M1: due to well-founded suspicions, they also contacted the foreign authorities involved in the case.

"The investigative authority previously requested a position from the Chief Prosecutor's Office of the Capital City regarding the existence of well-founded suspicion. And the competent department of the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office gave its opinion: it established that the well-founded suspicion exists in the case of both suspects," said Bettina Bagoly, spokesperson of the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office.

So far, two persons, including Ferenc Gyurcsány's lawyer, Csaba Czeglédy, have been suspected of being accomplices. The latter was confirmed by the politician himself on his social media page.

At the beginning of April, Hungarian Nation wrote about: Csaba Czeglédy was interrogated in the case. Based on the minutes of the interrogation, the newspaper states that: according to the authorities, Csaba Czeglédy helped the public become aware of the Devil's Advocate website and the video leaked through it.

Source: hirado.hu

Cover photo: Csaba Czeglédy Photo: MTI/ Tibor Rosta