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03/12/2015

Top court rejects complaints against FX loan conversion legislation

Budapest, December 2 (MTI) – Hungary’s Constitutional Court rejected requests to declare legislation on the conversion of retail FX mortgages into forint unconstitutional, the court said […]
27/11/2015

MOL chief taken off Interpol wanted list

Budapest, November 27 (MTI) – Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-chief executive of Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, has been taken off of Interpol’s wanted persons list. Interpol […]
26/11/2015

Budapest court gives homebirth midwife suspended prison sentence

Budapest (MTI) – A Budapest district court handed down a sentence of one year in prison suspended for three years to homebirth midwife Agnes Gereb in […]
26/11/2015

Court acquits officials of charges over 2008 real estate resale

Budapest, November 25 (MTI) – A Budapest court has acquitted a former Moscow ambassador and six other defendants of charges of misappropriation, accessory to a crime […]
20/11/2015

Court orders arrest of Briton convicted for financing terrorism

Budapest (MTI) – A Budapest court ordered on Thursday the expulsion arrest of one of two Britons previously convicted for financing terrorism and apprehended by Hungarian […]
19/11/2015

Top court ruling on Quaestor may prove positive for rating, says City

London (MTI) – The Constitutional Court’s ruling on the Quaestor scandal may help Hungary’s sovereign ratings to return to investment grade, London-based emerging markets analysts said […]
17/11/2015

Parties react to top court ruling on Quaestor compensation law

Budapest, November 17 (MTI) – Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party said the Constitutional Court’s decision to axe parts of a law on compensation for investors of failed […]
17/11/2015

Top court axes Quaestor compensation law

Budapest, November 17 (MTI) – Hungary’s top court has axed some parts of a law on compensation for investors of failed brokerage Quaestor, the court said […]
13/11/2015

Austria, Germany suspend arrest warrant for MOL chief

Zagreb (MTI) – Austria and Germany have suspended the arrest warrant for Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-chief executive of Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, the Austrian office […]
06/11/2015

Portuguese company demands huge compensation from Hungary

According to origo.hu, the first phase of the international arbitration proceedings launched due to the dispute between the Hungarian state and the Portuguese DanCake has been […]
04/11/2015

Budapest court rules in Jobbik’s favour in libel suit

Budapest, November 4 (MTI) – A Budapest municipal court has ruled that the ruling Fidesz party must pay radical nationalist Jobbik 700,000 forints and apologise to […]
29/10/2015

Budapest court reprimands former Budapest police chief, acquits former national police chief

Budapest, October 29 (MTI) – The Budapest Capital Regional Court on Thursday reprimanded two suspects and acquitted the other 12 in a hearing held in a […]
22/10/2015

MOL chief sees legal option for fighting Croatia’s arrest warrant

Budapest, October 22 (MTI) – There is a legal possibility that in some countries the arrest warrant put out by Croatia on Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-chief executive […]
08/10/2015

Syrian migrant who kicked police in chest gets suspended sentence

A Syrian national found guilty by a local court of kicking a police officer in the chest was given a suspended prison sentence of 18 months […]
02/10/2015

Biszku pleads not guilty to war crime charges in new trial

Budapest, October 2 (MTI) – Bela Biszku, Hungary’s interior minister in communist times, pleaded not guilty in a second trial to charges of committing war crimes […]
25/09/2015

Jobbik to turn to Constitutional Court over planned sale of state land

Budapest, September 25 (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party said it will submit a complaint to the Constitutional Court over the government’s planned sale of […]
25/09/2015

Jobbik supports challenging quota system in court

Budapest, September 25 (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party said the government would have its backing if it were to challenge the EU’s refugee quota […]
22/09/2015

Alleged member of terrorist front placed in preliminary detention

Budapest, September 22 (MTI) – The Szeged county court, in southern Hungary, on Tuesday ordered the preliminary detention for one month of a Syrian man who […]
22/09/2015

Strasbourg court rules against Hungarian state in Somali asylum seekers’ case

Budapest, September 22 (MTI) – In a non-binding ruling on Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights said the Hungarian authorities violated the human rights of […]
20/09/2015

Twenty-three convicted of illegal border crossing on Sunday

The Szeged Regional Court convicted a total of 23 migrants of crossing Hungary’s border illegally on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the Szeged Court told MTI. Erika […]