UPDATE – foreign press flooded by Győr Mayor’s sex and drug scandal

A new post has been published about Győr Mayor Zsolt Borkai on the blog of a secret leaker, right in the final stage of the 2019 Local Elections campaign of Hungary. The Austrian, German, Romanian, Croatian, Czech, and Slovakian press are full of the growing drug and sex scandal of the Fidesz mayor. 

According to neocasino.wixsite.com, mayor Borkai travels to the Maldives every year at the end of December for three weeks, each time with his “friends” – the portal has no evidence at this time. 

Presumably, the purpose of these journeys was not only entertainment but “banking management” as well.

“A major advantage of being the president of the Hungarian Olympic Committee was that Borkai could have a diplomat passport. Therefore, he could take a suitcase full of cash onboard every year as diplomatic luggage, without it being checked,”

states the leaker in his post.

It also seems to be an interesting business that the government can easily provide diplomatic passports for basically anyone. The Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has given out 16,952 diplomatic passports since 2010.

Officially, there are only 1,700 associates working in foreign affairs while there are 7,657 diplomatic passports in use at the moment.

According to Die Presse:

“Hungary has her own Ibiza scandal.”

In Kronen Zeitung, it is not clear why the mayor has not resigned yet – we know from his public video message that he has no such plan (you can read about it here). Österreich assumes that the party was paid from public funds.