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Today, the Ukrainian authorities committed Zsolt Legény to smuggling cigarettes into Ukraine, the Hungarian Socialist Party said in a statement. The MSZP also reported that
Zsolt Legény resigned from all party positions on Thursday night and left the party.
The Socialist Party also initiated the immediate revocation of Zsolt Legény’s diplomatic passport.
Between 2006-2010 and 2010-2014, Zsolt Legény, lawyer, was a member of the MSZP parliament, first a member of the Youth, Social and Family Committee, then the European Affairs Committee, the Consumer Protection Cases Committee and the Committee of Agriculture.
In 2010, he was elected representative of the local government of Tornyospálca, then held the position of deputy leader of the Hungarian Socialist Party and was also president of the National Council of Ethics and Discipline of the MSZP. Until his resignation, he was vice president of the Territorial Association of the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Party.
Telex wrote in the news of a Ukrainian newspaper, Yevropeyska Pravda, that he wanted to smuggle cigarettes across the Ukrainian border with a diplomatic passport, a former MSZP member of parliament. Border guards were impressed by the fact that the politician who arrived without accreditation showed a diplomatic passport, but the car did not have a diplomatic license plate.
During the inspection, he refused to allow the car to be inspected, claiming diplomatic protection. This was finally done after representatives of the Hungarian consulate were invited to the place. The amount of smuggled goods is not yet known, the record still being kept Thursday night.
Ukrainian customs authorities also released a video of the car inspection.
Relations between Ukraine and Hungary have been strained recently not only because of the language law. More recently, István Grezsa was expelled from Ukraine after Kiev accused the Hungarian government of directly interfering in internal Ukrainian politics in the last elections with the support of Hungarians in Transcarpathia. Hungary, on the other hand, is trying to achieve compliance with the rights of Hungarian minorities in Ukraine by blocking the country’s NATO and EU accession negotiations.
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