An investigation has been launched on suspicion of abuse of office and other crimes following the previous claims of Bence Szabó, former captain of the National Investigation Agency, that a house search was initiated under pressure from the secret service after a report on child pornography against Gundalf and Buddha, computer scientists helping the Tisza Party.
The investigation was started after Miklós Ligeti, as the legal head of the Transparency International Hungary Foundation, filed a complaint with the General Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of abuse of office, referring to the statement of Bence Szabó.
“According to the essence of the report, criminal proceedings for the crime of child pornography were initiated with the participation of the police and civil national security services, and coercive measures were taken in the process, so that even the investigating authority could not knowingly establish any suspicion of the commission of the crime”
– says the decision of the Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office (KNyF) sent to Telex. According to this, István Tényi filed a complaint regarding the statement of Bence Szabó, because the Office for the Protection of the Constitution intervened in the investigation for political purposes.
“The Capital Investigative Prosecutor’s Office has the authority and jurisdiction over the proceedings regarding the reports showing a content connection, however, it is advisable to appoint the Budapest Regional Investigative Prosecutor’s Office to conduct the procedure,” wrote the KNyF.
Bence Szabó, investigator of the Cybercrime Division of the National Investigation Bureau he told Direkt36 with face and name at the end of March, how the house search, which was initiated under the pressure of the secret service, proceeded against IT professionals helping the Tisza Party. The government then posted on its social media a decrypted videowhich recorded the AH audition/interrogation of a young man nicknamed Gundalf, who was only 19 at the time. The government communicated that this was evidence that Gundalf admitted to being recruited by Ukrainian intelligence, even though the video does not say so. Bence Szabo spoke to Telex about that, in his opinion, they questioned the IT specialist unethically and bombarded him with suggestive questions, while many times they did not even listen to his answer. According to him, if the suspicion of espionage had really stopped at AH, then the secret service would have filed a complaint about it, but while he was following up on the case, it didn’t even arise.
