“Major Bence Szabó r. – 16.06.2026.” – that’s all Bence Szabó said on Monday evening to his Instagram post writing, in the photo there is a shoulder sheet on a police file, and a sheet labeled “Reinstatement to professional service” peeks out of the file.
In May, Minister of the Interior Gábor Pósfai announcedthat Szabó will work at the Ministry of the Interior, and his task will be to display and channel the opinions of the staff.
To Telex’s question after the post, Bence Szabó said that he did not return to the National Investigation Bureau, but to the National Police Headquarters, and that his duties will be determined by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as announced in May. When asked whether he would join/apply for the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office, Szabó said that “this is the situation now”. The former captain returned to the police not as an officer, but as a senior officer – a major.
The former investigator started his return process at the beginning of June, after Gábor Pósfai instructed that colleagues who had left the field earlier should be given the opportunity to be reinstated in the official staff, and this opportunity was limited by the previous management.
Bence Szabo came to the public in Marchthat the secret services tried to break into the IT system of the Tisza Party. THE For Direkt36 given, after his statement published on the Telex an investigation was launched due to suspicion of abuse of office and other crimesthat it can be associated with the Tisza Party at IT professionals under secret service pressure whether a house search was conducted, and on the recommendation of the chief prosecutor, the proceedings of the MNB case were transferred from the National Investigation Office to the Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office, citing professional reasons.
Szabó also submitted a service complaintbecause according to him, his employment was unlawfully terminated. At the beginning of May, the General Prosecutor’s Office terminated it the former police detective’s “suspect legal status”, which was justified by the fact that the suspicion was premature and it was likely that the “suspect’s aim was not aimed at obtaining an illegal advantage”. Although Szabó is no longer a suspect, the proceedings against him have not yet been concluded.
