Although it seemed that the darkest secret service scandal of the Gyurcsány era could finally be put to an end in June, the court adjourned the classified criminal trial until September. The essence of the case is that the former director-general of the National Security Office (NBH), Lajos Galambos, and the former head of the service's operations department are accused by the prosecution of having bribed Róbert Jakubinyi, who was a well-known figure of the underworld, with sums of hundreds of millions. Jakubinyi was also linked to the attempt to discredit Sándor Pintér, Minister of the Interior, a few years ago. The authorities also learned information about the man that Jakubinyi (like Tamas Portik) also spoke to foreign secret services about political corruption during the Gyurcsány government.

the Egymásért, Egy-másért Foundation  , Róbert Jakubinyi, was previously accused by the National Security Office (NBH) of espionage, and later acquitted  his former director general, Lajos Galambos, and the former head of the "company's" operations department for abuse of office committed continuously in 2013. the public prosecutor accused him of the crime of official bribery and other crimes. In their case, a guilty verdict was already issued, but the Capital Court ordered a new procedure.

Last September, in the repeated first-instance proceedings, the court sentenced Jakubinyi to three years in prison and four years of disqualification from public affairs for the two-degree crime of continuous bribery, the second-degree defendant Galambos to four years of prison and six years of disqualification from public affairs for the crime of continuous bribery and violation of state secrets, and the third-degree defendant for bribery for his crime, sentenced him to two years and six months in prison and four years of disqualification from public affairs, and ordered them to pay nearly four million forints in criminal costs.

Since the defendants appealed, the case was returned to the court, which scheduled closed sessions for June 16, 17 and 24. However, according to our information , after all the arguments were heard, the court adjourned the criminal trial until September 13 for the final word and announcement of the decision. Due to the protection of classified data, the audience may only be present when the operative part of the final decision is announced.

We have written many times: the threads of the classified case can be traced back to the Egymásért Foundation founded during the Gyurcsány government. According to the indictment, a private company brought billions worth of customs goods, including several tons of food, from Asia to the country in 2005 and 2006 for the foundation, which was initiated by Lajos Nagy, the first director of the National Security Agency (NBH), who died in 2006. donation, but they ended up on the shelves of large supermarket chains, so almost one and a half billion in taxes were not paid into the state coffers. Later, revealing testimonies revealed that the former non-profit organization operated as a payment place for the highest-ranking secret agents of the Gyurcsány government for years, in exchange for which the heads of the authorities smoothed out Jakubinyi's criminal cases. According to the indictment, the defendants could pocket hundreds of millions of dollars for their services.

 to persuade  the lawyer of György Tanyi, who was  legally sentenced to eleven years for the assassination attempt against the trotter Csaba Lakatos, to persuade Tanyi to escape and to take documents related to the Minister of the Interior Sándor Pintér abroad. The defender refused the request, so the man put him under pressure. Even under the influence of the threat, the lawyer did not promise to influence his client, so Jakubinyi offered twenty million forints for the prisoner's escape and the delivery of the documents. The authorities did not think for a minute that this was Jakubinyi's personal action, so they began to investigate who were the former Hungarian secret services or foreign services who might have benefited from this action. The investigative judge who ordered Jakubinyi's arrest also drew attention to the fact that a complicated organizational network could be behind it:

 The manner of committing the crime, the nature of which is the subject of the well-founded suspicion, and the persons included in it point to a more significant circle of interests. The investigation has been ongoing for barely a month and requires extensive investigative actions. It is not possible to rule out the cross-border nature of the act, the conspiratorial way of committing it, also taking into account the relationship system of the suspect László Róbert Jakubinyi. In addition, an investigation to identify the identity of the suspect's principals and associates must also be carried out...

A few years ago, our police sources informed us that Jakubinyi had told the authorities everything about the details of the case and his clients in connection with the operation against Pintér. He claimed that former high-ranking secret service potentates promised him millions if he succeeded in discrediting Interior Minister Sándor Pintér abroad with Tanyi. We also wrote earlier when Jakubinyi  was taken into extradition custody in Austria in the Egymásért case ; according to our information, he got close to the Austrian authorities and started talking about the corrupt public conditions in Hungary under the Gyurcsány government, as well as the fact that several high-ranking NBH officials "in his pocket" One month after his arrest, the competent Viennese court ordered the man's house arrest, which according to our information shocked the Hungarian authorities, who also suspected that Jakubinyi had contacted the Russian and American secret services.

The full article of Pesti Srácok can be read here.

Author: Dávid Pámer

Pictured: Lajos Galambos (Origo)