Four socialist politicians pocketed hundreds of millions of bribes.
Ferenc Baja, the former top gun of the MSZP, also received some of the bribe money from which Csaba Horváth, Csaba Tóth and Zsolt Molnár also got, Magyar Nemzet . All of them received substantial sums from Zsolt Fuzik, whom the authorities suspect of budget fraud. According to the excerpts of the confession that came into our possession, a total of more than three hundred million forints of black money flowed to socialist politicians through this line.
Ferenc Baja, former Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, former Socialist Member of Parliament, was interrogated by the Central Investigative General Prosecutor's Office (KNYF) as a suspect for corruption, the General Prosecutor's Office announced. According to their information, the KNYF has so far questioned six people as suspects in its investigation into the crime of influence peddling and other crimes.4
As it was written, according to the available data, Budapesti Közlekedesi Zrt., which is the sole property of the Metropolitan Municipality, launched a public procurement procedure at the beginning of 2019 for IT operation and development services to be performed at the company's locations. A limited liability company for the public procurement procedure. made an offer.
According to the well-founded suspicion, Ferenc Baja met in Budapest in June 2019 with a man who exercised considerable influence in the operation of the business company making the offer, who made decisions on strategic and business issues, but at the same time did not hold an official position in the company.
The ex-minister ltd. in case he wins the tender, he asked for HUF 30 million in cash in order not to obstruct the creation and maintenance of the contract by asserting his existing influence resulting from his previous positions and existing political connections
they repeated.
Upon learning of the corruption deal
Socialist member of parliament Zsolt Molnár asked the former minister to ask the man for 40 million forints for him as well
so that he does not challenge the contract either. Ferenc Baja interpreted Zsolt Molnár's request for the man in a new meeting in June 2019, the prosecutor's office wrote in a statement.
Based on their preliminary agreement, the man handed Ferenc Baja 30 million forints in cash in November 2019. The politician later asked the man for money with reference to the fact that he had successfully prevented the unfavorable amendment of the framework contract for the company, so the man paid an additional seven million forints, however Ferenc Baja made a monthly request for an additional 2-3 million forints he refused - emphasizes the prosecutor's statement.
On Friday, the investigative general prosecutor's office interrogated Ferenc Baja as a suspect for the crime of trading with influence as an accomplice. The politician did not admit to committing the crime and filed a complaint against the suspicion, read the KNYF statement.
As Magyar Nemzet previously wrote,
Zsolt Fuzik may have spoken out after he entered into a plea deal with the investigative authority, which previously suspected him of budget fraud committed in a criminal organization.
Fuzik therefore talked about crimes he knew about, in which politicians were also involved, in the hope of a lighter sentence. The man accepted the lie test, which established that what he said covered the truth.
MTI
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