Anti-corruption Team to meet on Dec. 13
All positions on Hungary’s new Anti-corruption Team, a 21-strong consultative body attached to the Integration Authority, have now been filled, and the body will hold its first session on Dec. 13, the authority said on Thursday.
Ten members of the body have been delegated by state agencies, while another ten, reserved for NGO’s and private individuals, have been chosen through a public selection process, the authority said in a statement. The representatives of 6 NGOs, including Átlátszó, Transparency International and K-Monitor, as well as four individuals, have secured seats on the team led by Ferenc Bíró, the head of the authority as a whole.
The recently established Integrity Authority is tasked with probing any cases of fraud, conflict of interest or graft in connection with Hungary’s European Union funding.
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Source: MTI
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NGO’s – we all know what our Politicians think of NGO’s … This must have hurt! Both K-Monitor and Transparency International made it into the Anti Corruption Working Team list, the Helsinki Committee did not apply.
https://hungarianpolitics.com/2022/10/08/three-prominent-ngos-find-hungarian-anti-corruption-laws-sorely-lacking/
To qualify as a Member, the prospective Members had to demonstrate “experience in one or more of the following areas: prevention and fight against corruption, transparency, public procurement procedures, protection of human rights related to the tasks of the working group, and law enforcement”. All 6 NGOs that applied met the conditions and were duly selected – meaning NGOs are objectively knowledgeable and not just “evil”!
Fun fact: the Anti-Corruption Working Group will consult with the new Integrity Authority, which is responsible (and obliged) to report cases of fraud and corruption to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), allowing our Chief Prosecutor’s Office to be bypassed and thus reduce or eliminate political meddling.
https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/members
Unsurprisingly, our Politicians strongly opposed joining EPPO in the past…