The former director general of the National Security Office, Lajos Galambos, entered prison on Wednesday morning, Magyar Nemzet learned. The former Gyurcsány government's defense chief was accused by the prosecution, among other things, of bribing Róbert Jakubinyi, a well-known figure of the underworld, with a sum of one hundred million. In September, Galambos was legally sentenced to four years in prison for all of this.

It is expected that Galambos will not have to spend a long time behind bars, since he can be released on parole after serving two-thirds of his sentence, and before that he can probably use the possibility of reintegration custody. This ten-month discount means that the former NBH chief will be able to serve the last months of his sentence at home with a tracker.

Róbert Jakubinyi , the key figure the Egymásért Egy-Másért Foundation the National Security Office , and later acquitted of his former director general, Lajos Galambos, and the former head of the office's operations department in 2013. he was accused by the prosecutor's office of felony and other crimes.

Egymásért Egy-Másért Foundation, founded during the Gyurcsány government : according to the accusation, the foundation - initiated by Lajos Nagy, the first director of the National Security Office, who died in 2006 - was a private company in 2005 and 2006 brought into the country billions worth of customs goods and several tons of food from Asia, claiming that they were donations, 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. For their services, the defendants could receive sums of hundreds of millions.

In 2017, the military council of the Kaposvár Court The first-rate defendant, Róbert Jakubinyi, well-known in the underworld, was sentenced to four years in prison and five years of suspension from public affairs for two counts of continuous bribery.

The second defendant, Lajos Galambos, was sentenced to five years for persistent bribery and violation of state secrets, and was banned from public affairs for eight years. the NBH's operations department, the third-rate defendant, was sentenced to three years in prison and a five-year ban from public affairs. The court also sentenced Galambos to HUF 150 and the former head of department to HUF 100 million.

Although the prosecutor's office proposed imposing a heavier penalty, the Capital City Court of Appeal overruled the first-instance verdict due to procedural reasons. appointed another military council Kaposvár Court of Justice to conduct the repeated proceedings

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, and the second-degree defendant Galambos to four years of prison and six years of disqualification from public affairs for continuous bribery and violation of state secrets. The third-rate defendant received two years and six months, also for bribery, and he was banned from public affairs for four years.

Source: 888.hu/MN

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