According to his spokesperson, István Tiborcz plans to continue his business activities in Hungary through BDPST Zrt. “The group continues to contribute to the Hungarian economy and (…) remains committed to its long-term presence in Hungary,” the spokesperson stated in the to the Financial Timesafter Péter Magyar posted about itthat the Orbán oligarchs transfer money in the amount of tens of billions to distant countries.
Tiborcz’s spokesman did not answer the question that the outgoing prime minister’s son-in-law, who moved to the United States last yearwill he return to Hungary? Like Ádám Matolcsy, he also stated that his company fully cooperates with the authorities.
In his post, Péter Magyar also claimed that “NAV suspended several high-value transfers belonging to Antal Rogán’s circle based on indications from the banks, on suspicion of money laundering”. Magyar called on the chief prosecutor, the national police chief and the president of NAV to arrest “the criminals who have harmed the Hungarian people with thousands of billions of forints, and not to let them flee to countries from which there is no extradition for the time being” before the Tisza government is formed.
Sándor Csányi, the president and CEO of OTP Bank, told the Financial Times that he has nothing to fear, unlike “those who got jobs through inappropriate tenders”. According to Csányi, constructive cooperation will be established with all governments, and the Orbán system would disappear from the economy simply by restoring normal market conditions. “It’s very, very easy to do. You just have to make the right decisions,” he added. After the General Assembly of the OTP Sándor Csányi also gave an interview to Telex.
The British Guardian recently reported thatthat according to their information, private planes are constantly taking off from Vienna that are supposed to transport the wealth of those who became rich during the time of the Orbán government. The paper also wrote that they know that high-ranking people close to Orbán are looking for American visa opportunities. It has since turned out that the emergency police are investigating the case of suspected property thefts. The G7 wrote about it in more detail, how the NER billionaires can try to escape the wealth.
Ádám Matolcsy, the son of the former president of the central bank, told the Financial Times: “It is not the task of politicians or journalists to decide who should be prosecuted (…) my income comes from a legal and transparent business.” According to him, none of his companies have any connection with the foundations of the central bank, and he has had a residence permit in the United Arab Emirates for years because of his work. He added that it was not true 444 information that he would have moved his assets to Dubai before the elections.
Earlier Telex also asked about it to Ádám Matolcsy, who says that the statement is untrue: “My furniture business also has orders in the Middle East region, so shipping to the region has been and is still part of continuous business activity.” However, he did not answer whether any authorities had sought him in connection with the case of the MNB foundation in the past year. The son of the former central bank president also wrote to Telex that if any authority wants to investigate his activities, he will fully cooperate.
On February 10 of last year, the Emergency Police National Investigation Office ordered an investigation into the case involving the Hungarian National Bank based on the report of the State Audit Office. In the middle of March last year, the State Audit Office (ÁSZ) published three reports, totaling more than six hundred pages, which are more or less related to the central bank:
– on the management of the Pallas Athena Domus Meriti Foundation (PADME).;
– about the investments of the János Neumann University Foundation;
– or for yourself on the regularity of the MNB’s operationamong them about the cost of the headquarters renovation.
The first of these, the report on PADME’s management, was the most talked about, despite the fact that thanks to the work of the independent press it has been known for years that the management of the MNB foundation is problematic. Two days before the publication of the official report, on March 17, Direkt36, which obtained the draft report of the Audit Office, reported that the SAO found serious deficiencies and identified decisions that caused serious losses in connection with the management of the central bank’s foundation assets of hundreds of billions of forints. About how approximately HUF 200 billion from the assets of the MNB foundations was lost in various real estate matters, we wrote more about it in this articleand the developments of the MNB case we follow here.
We added Ádám Matolcsy’s answer to the Financial Times to our article.
