After parliament lifted their immunity, Hungarian prosecutors detained two former ministers on Monday on charges of corruption and abuse of authority. A major step forward in Prime Minister Páv Magyar’s attempts to bring individuals from the administration of his predecessor Viktor Orbán accountable is the detention of Miklós Seszták and Balázs Hankó. “Operation Purge” is the name given to the effort.
Orbán has been accused by Magyar, whose Tisza Party won the parliamentary election in April, of operating a “mafia state” that transferred billions of euros in public cash to his business friends. After establishing a government, Tisza ran on a “Road to Jail” platform. In June, Magyar declared Operation Purge, which was intended to destroy what he called state capture.
We are initiating Operation Purge, which will put an end to those protracted decades in which organised political and economic criminal groups could hold Hungary captive,” Magyar stated to the legislature. Tisza’s majority in parliament lifted the two former legislators’ immunity on Monday morning. Seszták, minister of development from 2014 to 2018, is suspected of accepting bribes related to bus tenders worth about €30 million. Hankó is under investigation for giving public figures €46 million in cultural funds, which the authorities consider to be campaign funding.
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