"If it's true that the government endlessly eavesdropped on journalists, businessmen, independent intellectuals, and politicians, then these are traitorous criminals," wrote Ferenc Gyurcsány on his Facebook page regarding the spyware case.
The post is extremely surprising because exactly
from the time of the Gyurcsány government, many examples can be cited when the secret services were used for political purposes.
In June 2008, Sándor Laborc, the head of the National Security Office (NBH) at the time (currently the Office for Prevention, Legal Successor) met with Tamas Portik, who has since been convicted for several counts committed in the 1990s. The purpose of the meetings initiated by the oil criminal was to maintain the power of the MSZP and to influence the 2010 elections. - Our job would be to strengthen the Prime Minister [Gyurcsány - ed.] or at least the MSZP itself - said Portik at the meeting, the transcript of which was later made public. At the second meeting, it was discussed: "What else do I think you are interested in?" Media, municipality, judge, lawyer, prosecutor?" Portik asked. And Laborc's answer was "that's how it is".
One of the dominant leaders of the underworld and the director-general of the prevention essentially agreed that the former oil criminal would gather information about real Fidesz politicians.
In order to ensure successful, undisturbed work, Sándor Laborc even set up a secure phone for Tamás Portik.
Sándor Laborc was later replaced at the head of the NBH by László Balajti, already during the Bajnai government, who kept the office away from politics. But he was forced to file a complaint regarding the actions of his predecessor for abuse of office and other crimes. Demeter Ervin, Fidesz's father-in-law at the time, expressed the case as follows: after the change of government in 2010, it was revealed that there was an operational file in which the content of the 2006 telephone conversation between the Fidesz presidency and the party president was recorded.
In addition, it was also revealed that a Fidesz leader was regularly wiretapped.
The former director-general had a file analyzing telephone conversations and relationships under the names "Ovi" and "Bajusz", from which some experts concluded that these folders contained the intercepted conversations of Viktor Orbán and László Kövér.
Sándor Laborc - who obviously knows a lot of sensitive, state secret information - currently works as an adviser to the Democratic Coalition.
But if it's secret services and journalists. It is worth recalling that, after Magyar Nemzet employees took photos and gathered information at the site of the large-scale construction of Chancellery Minister György Szilvásy in Lesencefalu in 2007, NBH employees appeared at the apartment of one of the journalists. "When our colleague made it clear that he had visited the settlement as a journalist for our newspaper and that he no longer wished to provide any information, the two men inquired about how secure his job at Magyar Nemzet was," read the issue of the newspaper published at the time.
Source: magyarnemzet.hu
In the opening photo: Sándor Laborc, the head of the National Security Office (NBH) at the time, and György Szilvásy, former minister without portfolio overseeing civil intelligence services.
