{"id":6030,"date":"2026-09-29T01:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=6030"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:13:20","slug":"hungary-lifts-immunity-of-prime-minister-magyar-two-orban-era-ministers-corruption-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=6030","title":{"rendered":"Hungary lifts immunity of Prime Minister Magyar, two Orban-era ministers | Corruption News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hungary\u2019s Parliament lifts immunity of incumbent leader and two ex-Orban ministers, clearing the way for criminal probes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hungary\u2019s Parliament has stripped Prime Minister Peter Magyar and two ministers in former leader Viktor Orban\u2019s nationalist government of their immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to pursue separate criminal investigations into each of them.<\/p>\n

The vote on Monday came after Magyar, who is being investigated for theft, specifically asked for his immunity to be lifted so he could clear himself of \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d. The probes against the Orban-era ministers \u2013 who are suspected of embezzlement and bribery \u2013 are the first corruption investigations against top government figures from Orban\u2019s 16 years in power.<\/p>\n

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Legislators voted overwhelmingly in favour of lifting their immunity.<\/p>\n

Orban\u2019s Fidesz party and its ally KDNP boycotted the session.<\/p>\n

The vote was in response to a request last week from prosecutors seeking to investigate Magyar, as well as former Minister of Culture Balazs Hanko and former Minister of National Development Miklos Sesztak.<\/p>\n

Magyar is being investigated over an incident at a Budapest nightclub in June 2024, when prosecutors allege he took a mobile phone from a man filming him and threw it into the Danube River.<\/p>\n

Magyar has called the case a \u201csham\u201d and last week accused prosecutors of trying \u201cto conflate\u201d the ex-ministers\u2019 cases \u201cwith the attempt at political character assassination\u2026 which has already failed several times\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Hanko, a legislator from Orban\u2019s Fidesz party, is accused of embezzling more than 40 million euros ($46m) in public funds. Prosecutors allege the money was used to help finance the 2026 parliamentary election campaign and for the personal benefit of others.<\/p>\n

Sesztak, a lawmaker from KDNP, is under investigation over allegedly accepting more than $37.2m in bribes and kickbacks connected to vehicle procurements under Hungary\u2019s state bus company, as well as to state construction projects.<\/p>\n

Both ministers deny any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The cases come less than six months after Magyar\u2019s Tisza party ended Orban\u2019s 16 years in power with a landslide election victory. Magyar campaigned on pledges to tackle corruption, restore rule-of-law safeguards, and rebuild Hungary\u2019s strained relationship with the European Union.<\/p>\n

His government has since made fighting alleged corruption and overpriced public procurement a central part of its programme, including plans for a new asset-recovery office focused on wrongdoing linked to the Orban era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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