According to Ákos Starcz, it is natural that there were security guards around Miklós Vaszily’s office, since they are always with a television.

According to Ákos Starcz, the appointed CEO of the Index a few weeks ago, not enough things happened around the removal of former publisher Pál Szombathy from the Index, as Szombathy put it.

According to Szombathy, they went to the owners for a meeting on November 23, and Starcz was sitting in the office of Miklós Vaszily, with whom they were told that everything was already wallpaper. Then, waiting a while, two scramblers appeared in front of the office and, for safety, two more in the yard, although we didn’t even know what the gutter was for at the time. Vasily screamed and said we couldn’t leave here until we had signed everything, ”he said.

Starcz told Media1 that things looked quite different: according to him, the meeting took place in Miklós Vaszily’s office at TV2 Media Group. According to the CEO, all commercial television companies have security guards, but his appearance was not due to a conversation with Pál Szombathy, it is simply a protected building, so he could see guards around Vasily Szombathy’s office.

This is not the first reaction to the Szombathy story by any of the stakeholders: according to Márton Kárpáti, managing director of Telex, a journalist who left the Index at the same time, all is not well in the interview with 24. hu.


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Gábor Ziegler told 24.hu that readers will decide if they like the Index.

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Paul Szombathy fired him, but then the owner of Fidesz fired Szombathy.