One of the confidants of Ákos Hadházy Hadházy, a politician and lawyer from Kecskemét, has been accused by the Central Investigative Prosecutor's Office of money laundering of almost two hundred million, Magyar Nemzet has learned . According to the data collected during the investigation, Vancsura helped one of his acquaintances clean up the wealth obtained through corruption.
A few weeks ago, the Central Investigative Prosecutor's Office (KNYF) brought charges against István Vancsura, as an accomplice, as a service provider defined in the Act on the Prevention and Prevention of Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism, for the crime of money laundering committed in connection with the activities of the service provider - it was revealed in the response of the Prosecutor General's Office to our newspaper .
He is a close ally of the Kecskemét municipal representative and lawyer Ákos Hadházy, former high-ranking head of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV). In addition, Vancsura is the founder of the Hungarian Anti-Corruption Association, which promotes the purification of public life, and as the authorized legal representative of Hadházy, he helped the independent member of parliament in the fight against corruption in several cases.
That is why it is shocking that in May 2022 the lawyer's house was searched and he was interrogated as a suspect for the above crime.
The indictment took place almost two years later, in February of this year. The background of the charge against Vancsura is related to the proceedings involving former Finance Ministry officials. In the latter case, the indictment states that the perpetrators committed corruption crimes in a criminal conspiracy, through bribery, in connection with tenders financed partly from the Hungarian state budget and partly from European Union support.
He could have committed money laundering as a lawyer
According to the indictment, Hadházy's confidant provided assistance to one of the members of the criminal gang who obtained a large amount of bribe money. After a while, the man was afraid of being found out, so in order to cover up the origin of the wealth, he prepared a false document according to which one of his relatives gave his cash savings in HUF and foreign currency equivalent to HUF 180 million on August 15, 2015 for safekeeping, utilization and placement in safes over to him.
According to the accusation, he asked for help with this fictional story from his acquaintance István Vancsura, who countersigned this fake document as a lawyer at the beginning of 2022.
According to the information given to our paper by the Attorney General's Office, the politician from Kecskemét acted as a lawyer knowing that the cash came from corruption, and he also confirmed that he received the money from an acquaintance before him as a lawyer.
In addition to all of this, the KNYF also accuses Vancura of two counts of money laundering as a service provider defined in the Act on the Prevention and Suppression of Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism through carelessness.
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