Pestisrácok.hu also won a lawsuit against Krisztina Baranyi, the left-wing mayor of Ferencváros, who was previously reported to have omitted her 40 million Danube apartment from her property declaration. Baranyi filed a lawsuit objecting to the articles, and finally the Court found that it was a public matter, the declaration of assets could be freely analyzed and criticized, and the public plaintiff was burdened with an increased obligation of tolerance.

According to the portal, Baranyi's application for registration of ownership rights was stamped at the Land Registry on November 30, 2016. to a property of a newly built residential park in the district. The politician, who at the time was the Ferencváros municipal representative of Együtt and at the same time the party's spokesperson on corruption, acquired a 74-square-meter, two-room plus two half-room property with a fifteen-square-meter terrace in the Dunaparti Residential Park, which is within easy reach of the Danube. However, in his property declaration for 2016, he did not mention the apartment purchase, even though the sales contract was signed in that year.

At the time, the local Fidesz indicated that it was questionable how Baranyi was able to purchase such a high-value property from his representative's honorarium , and an extraordinary meeting of the municipality's asset declaration control and conflict of interest committee was called to investigate the matter. At the closed session of the representative body, the draft resolution of the committee was unanimously adopted, in which they were called to remedy the illegal situation immediately.

The asset declaration has not been amended since then Andrea Gyurákovics , leader of the Fidesz faction in Ferencváros, told Magyar Hírlappal He added: it is particularly interesting that in the summer of 2016 Baranyi applied for a social rental apartment out of line, citing his need. When asked about this at the hearing, he said that he bought the apartment on the Danube with a down payment of one million forints, social security and housing support.

As a result of the scandal, he then withdrew his application for social housing.

Source: Magyar Hírlap

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