DK calls for investigation on Orban’s declaration of assets

Budapest, February 14 (MTI) – Four lawmakers of the small opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) party have initiated an investigation procedure by parliament’s immunity committee on Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s declaration of assets, party leader Ferenc Gyurcsany said today.

Gyurcsany told a press conference that they accuse Orban of generating income during his career as a politician that exceeded the official figures he submitted on his assets declaration form. Orban’s growth of wealth cannot be explained without such extra income, he added.

Calculated from Orban’s current declaration and the latest declaration by his wife from 2010, the two of them have “purchased” assets worth at least 310-330 million forints (EUR 1-1.1m), Gyurcsany said.

“Viktor Orban has grown rich with other people’s money. He has become a corrupt politician,” said Gyurcsany. The prime minister owes an explanation about how he could accumulate more than 300 million forints personal wealth over 24 years, he said.

Orban has spent the majority of his adult life as a politician and there is no business or business income registered under his name, Gyurcsany said. All of the transparent income by Orban and his family result from salary received for fulfilling the posts of party group leader, party leader, committee chair and prime minister. This income is not on par with the wealth that he and his family accumulated over the past 24 years, Gyurcsany said.

He added he would not request a similar screening over assets of Socialist politicians. He added he had gained his wealth in a fair and lawful way.

Ruling Fidesz party spokesman Peter Hoppal said Gyurcsany’s call was a “cheap, lousy and pitiful” attempt to avert attention from the case of former Socialist deputy leader Gabor Simon. A comprehensive screening of Orban’s wealth was carried out ten years ago, during a Socialist government, and no wrongdoings were revealed whatsoever. Fidesz and the party leader have nothing to hide, he added.

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