Magyar Nemzet wrote that OTP Bank already filed a complaint regarding the financing of Gergely Karácsony's 99 Movement . The account of the movement founded by the mayor has received more than half a billion forints since its opening.

As is well known, NAV already launched an investigation in July regarding the activities of the association created for the campaign purposes of the left-wing mayor. According to the paper, after the NAV, OTP Bank Nyrt. also filed a complaint against an unknown perpetrator, due to the use of a false private document. The report obtained by the Magyar Nemzet shows that

526 million forints have arrived in the Karácsony account since its opening,

this means that Péter Márki-Zay's previous statement about the mayor's half-billion-dollar campaign is largely correct.

It turned out that Gábor Perjés - who manages the financial affairs of Karácsony - repeatedly handed over minutes to the OTP that talked about the opening of donation collection boxes. The bank then ordered an investigation, and at the end of it came to the following conclusions:

"Donations are basically collected from Hungarians living abroad for an approx. In a 30x30x30 cm donation collection box. According to the Perjésék records, 2-3 thousand banknotes were pressed into them, and in one case 3,811 banknotes, the article reads.

According to the report, however, "packages of banknotes cannot be placed in the box through the slot at the top, but at the same time, it was established that the majority of the banknotes brought in - mainly EUR banknotes - were new, wrinkle-free, in many cases consecutively numbered and stuck together (as if they had not come out of the printing press would have used them).''

The decisive statement of the report reads as follows:

in our opinion, the package-type placement physically precludes the placement of money in the boxes in question."

In addition, the credit institution's internal audit also found that the majority of the minutes contained "in addition to HUF banknotes, only EUR 50 and EUR 100 banknotes were included, and in addition, the number of EUR 100 banknotes was the same in two minutes". According to the paper, the mathematical chance is quite small

donate exactly the same amount of one-hundred-euro banknotes on the occasion of two different fundraisers.

The justification for the OTP's report concludes that "the suspicion arises that the content of the minutes sent to our bank by the Ninety-Nine Movement Association - for the purpose of proof of source - does not correspond to reality, thereby deceiving the bank in such a way that the actual, true source of the paid amounts it was not marked, it was not brought to the attention of the financial institution, thus the bank could not reliably verify the true source of the paid amounts."

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