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Budapest assembly to set up cttee for investigating Alstom case
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Budapest, May 12 (MTI) – The municipal assembly on Thursday approved setting up an ad hoc committee with the task to investigate corruption allegations connected to French engineering company Alstom’s Budapest metro contract.
The proposal submitted to the assembly by Máté Kocsis, a mayor for ruling Fidesz, was passed at an extraordinary meeting with 28 votes in favour and one abstention.
A decision on the composition of the committee is set to be taken at the assembly’s next meeting.
In late April Fidesz group leader Lajos Kósa told a press conference that years ago the UK’s Serious Fraud Office launched investigations into four Alstom executives for alleged corruption. The SFO alleged that they had transferred 2.3 million euros to Budapest transport company BKV for preferential treatment in the bids to supply the carriages for the city’s fourth metro line.