An investigation has been launched into the cemetery scandal of the capital's public utilities, Magyar Nemzet has learned. The background of the case is that the company entrusted with the maintenance of the cemetery's green areas was able to issue a false certificate of completion for almost seventy million forints worth of work.

The Budapest Police Headquarters (BRFK) opened an investigation into the scandal surrounding the Budapesti Közművek (BKM) Zrt. led by Imre Mártha on suspicion of fraud, the police's response to the newspaper revealed. The procedure is currently being conducted against an unknown perpetrator, i.e. no one has yet been questioned as a suspect.

István Tényi was the first to turn to the authorities in the matter, and after the case became public, the capital's utilities also stated that they had filed a complaint.

Tens of millions of bogus certificates

The background of the story is that from the internal investigation findings and documents that reached the Hungarian nation, it can be concluded that serious omissions and negligent work may have occurred in several projects of .

One such case is related to the maintenance work of the green area of ​​the capital's cemetery. The General Directorate of Funerals belonging to BKM entrusted the task to a horticultural company that did not fulfill its task, but at the same time the false performance certificates of Harmat Kert Kft. were accepted.

An internal investigation was launched into the case, and the related report stated:

"The certificate of completion of the work related to the care and maintenance of the green areas of the cemetery was not done in accordance with the current regulations, it did not take into account the requirements of the current legislation or the internal regulations." They also found that

despite the feedback received from the cemetery managers recording inadequate work, one of the department heads approved the work performed by the contractor 100 percent. The Budapest company paid almost seventy million forints for the "work".

And the documents reveal that the parties tried to cover up this little "buck" by saying that

the payment of illegally signed invoices was shown as "transfer of assets".

According to the utilities, no crime was committed, which is somewhat contradicted by the fact that the company's supervisory board filed a complaint.

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Cover image: Budapest, New Public Cemetery (Photo: Sándor Csudai)