The police have launched an investigation into the billion-dollar foreign aid received by the Everyone's Hungary Movement, Magyar Nemzet has learned. The fact that American funds came to Péter Márki-Zay's movement was admitted in the press by the opposition's former candidate for prime minister. The National Investigation Agency (NNI) ordered an investigation on suspicion of embezzlement and money laundering.

As we reported earlier, István Tényi, who is known for his public interest announcements, filed a complaint with the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office regarding the suspected foreign money. They sent the document to the Budapest Police Headquarters (BRFK), and from them the documents went to the National Investigation Agency (NNI). An addition to the report was ordered in the case, and then the ORFK informed our newspaper on Monday that the Emergency Police National Investigation Bureau had launched an investigation against an unknown suspect on suspicion of embezzlement and money laundering.

Well-known, Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition's former joint prime minister candidate, reported in the Magyar Hang Gulyáságyú podcast at the end of August that even in mid-June, hundreds of millions of forints worth of support had arrived from the United States.

He also revealed that the American foundation Action for Democracy sent this amount in one batch, but claimed that other transfers had previously come from this organization and that the funds were pooled by many people overseas. In a video interview previously published by the Magyar Nemzet, Márki-Zay already explained that the rules of party financing do not apply to them, since the Mendiki Magyarországa Mozgalom (MMM) is not a party and has never "behaved" as a party. That is why, according to him, they can accept money from abroad, but he denied that the money coming from the United States was spent on the election campaign during the election period.

"What we carried out, including with the support of Action for Democracy, was a campaign to change Hungarian culture"

- emphasized Márki-Zay, who believes that it is not a loophole that, as a prime minister candidate supported by all left-wing parties, the organization he leads campaigned with foreign funds during the election period. It turned out later that it was a billion-dollar subsidy. The politician also confirmed that money from the amounts in question also flowed to the DatAdat group of companies bearing the name of former Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai.

Incidentally, the police also launched an investigation in connection with DatAdat's "peculiar" data management case that erupted during the election campaign.

In our opening image: Péter Márki-Zay, the joint prime ministerial candidate of six opposition parties, gives a speech at the closing event of the United Hungary for Hungary campaign in Budapest, on Madách Square on April 2, 2022 (Photo: MTI/Szilárd Koszticsák)

Source: magyarnemzet.hu