Magyar Nemzet reports that the investigating authority has suspected a new person in the EU scandal of Katalinék Cseh . The man may have participated as an accessory to the crime, which the National Tax and Customs Office (NAV) has been investigating for two years on suspicion of budget fraud. In connection with the case, NAV staff assume that the members of the network of companies linked to the Czech family may have received billions of HUF in EU tender funds under suspicious circumstances.
The National Tax and Customs Administration has interrogated another person as a suspect in the EU financial scandal linked to Kataliné Cseh on suspicion of budget fraud committed as an accessory to a crime - the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office, which oversees the process, revealed in its response to the Magyar Nemzet.
They added: the man - who was also suspected of using a false private document - filed a complaint against the suspect.
"The complaint was rejected by the Chief Prosecutor's Office of the Capital City as unfounded, given that it was made legally and well-founded. There are no coercive measures in the case," the attorney general's office told Magyar Nemzet, adding that according to the well-founded suspicion, the man was an accomplice in the crime of the previous suspect in the case.
Seizure of billions of assets
It is known that NAV staff have already interrogated a person in the case who is suspected of tax fraud exceeding half a billion. According to our information, the person is an official of a company connected to the Czech family's company, whose interests were seized by the investigative authorities in excess of billions. The man now suspected may have been his accomplice.
EU funds obtained under suspicious circumstances
The antecedents of the investigation go back two years: the press began to deal with the scandal of the circles connected to the Czech Catherines in the summer of 2021, after the revealing materials of the masked figure Anonymus, and the tax authority launched an investigation on suspicion of budget fraud.
Based on the public data, it was possible to conclude that the members of the network of companies connected to the family business of the Czech Katalines applied for and won HUF 4.8 billion under suspicious circumstances.
NAV specialists reviewed the EU tenders submitted in recent years by the network of roughly half a dozen economic companies. After that, the investigators established that the businesses applied for EU and domestic funds in a coordinated manner.
In several cases, the company's headquarters, branch office, and manager were the same, but more than once there was a match in the identity of the supplier and the location of the project implementation.
So-called holographic devices and technologies were included in the tenders. The latter element is quite important, since the employees of the tax authority make it probable that the companies of the network participated in ten tenders at least partly with the same development. The investigators discovered that the same equipment was procured in two tenders, and the same invoices were presented several times to prove the use of EU funds.
They also help the investigation from abroad
In the case of cross-border tax evasion, the Hungarian authorities have already issued several foreign legal aid requests. The countries contacted included Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic. The answer came from all three countries, and the evaluation of the Czech legal aid has already taken place, and we know that the information received from the Prague District Prosecutor's Office may confirm the suspicion.
Source: hirado.hu
Cover photo: Katalin Cseh, representative of Momentum at the plenary session of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg on July 16, 2019 (Photo: MTI/Szilárd Koszticsák)
