In his lawsuit for the release of data of public interest, the private plaintiff asked the Metropolitan Court to oblige the defendant to release to him all the documents created in the so-called pardon case. However, the court clarified in its statement that the law does not allow this.
In the justification of the decision, it was stated that the amnesty procedure examined in this case is CCXL of 2013 on the implementation of punishments, measures, certain coercive measures and detention for violations. falls under the scope of the law (see: executive pardon). The rules of this law regarding the recognition of documents exclude the disclosure of documents generated during pardon procedures.
In his reasoning, the judge drew attention to the fact that in precedent-setting judgments of the Court in cases with similar facts, he also stated that
RECORDS OF MERCY PROCEEDINGS ARE NOT DATA OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
The action filed in this case was aimed at the release of documents linked to a specific person, which only contain the criminal personal data of the person concerned. Criminal personal data are not of public interest or public data in the public interest, and therefore the law does not allow their disclosure even in the case of broad social interest.
As is well known, János V., the director of the children's home who was convicted of pedophilia, is the protagonist of the pardon scandal that broke out in February, the basis of which was the fact that former President Katalin Novák pardoned Endre K., the accomplice of János V., the director convicted in the Bicske pedophilia case.
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