Prime Minister Péter Magyar has called on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to respond “immediately” whether they have interviewed former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and János Hajdu, the former head of counter-terrorism force TEK, as suspects in the so-called “gold convoy” case involving the way the authorities under the previous government stopped the transport of money and gold assets to Ukraine.
Magyar said on Facebook on Thursday that news portal 444.hu cited a leaked document according to which the prosecutor’s office had named Orbán and Hajdu as the persons making the “operative decisions and issuing orders” on the matter. The document is also reported to name Örs Farkas, the former state secretary supervising the secret services, and Tamás Demeter, the former deputy president of the tax authority responsible for criminal and law enforcement issues, as decision-makers.
Money and gold belonging to the Ukrainian state-owned financial institution Oschadbank were seized by Hungarian intelligence agencies on 5 March while the shipment was transiting Hungary on its way from Austria to Ukraine. According to a previous statement by the tax authority, the vehicles contained 40 million dollars, 35 million euros and 9kg of gold. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on May 6 that Hungary had returned the money and gold to Ukraine.
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