Bige case: the prosecution suspects 800 million bribes, sentenced to 5-10 years in prison



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László Bige His arrest is proposed by the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Attorney General’s Office. In their ad, they do not name one of the richest people in Hungary, they only mention a businessman from Nyíregyháza, who accepted more than 800 million guilders in bribes while damaging his own company by almost 2 billion guilders.

The punishment for the crime is imprisonment for five to ten years and, according to the prosecution, it is feared that the suspect with ties to abroad will escape and hide from the authorities. There is also the danger that he will influence people related to him to give their testimony, they justified the arrest motion.

The announcement makes reference to that the suspect is already being processed for the crime of accepting bribery based on the accusation of the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Attorney General’s Office. We wrote about this in May, in that case it was a bribe of 135 million florins and also a prison sentence, it is true that the fertilizer king can escape with suspended sentence if he accepts it.

In another 800 million case, this time, the prosecution writes that one of the suspect’s companies suspected that it had produced large quantities of agricultural products for years prior to 2018, some of which were classified as falsely disposed of on its instructions and sold to merchants at discounted prices. . One of these commercial enterprises also interested the businessman. The merchants then sold the product to end users at or near market prices. He agreed with the director of one of the trading companies that he would sell a product classified as fake scrap to him, who would resell it to end users, but would return a portion of the resulting purchase price in cash.

In total, the suspect took over a bribe of more than 800 million guilders from his business partner over the years.

the prosecutor’s office details the transaction.

László Bige, a billionaire, was arrested on Tuesday morning, questioned as a suspect for the crime of dishonest treatment that caused material damage of particular importance, the improper use of the use of a false private document and the crime of accepting a bribe committed by a person entitled to independent action.

Nitrogénművek Zrt. It revealed that László Bige was removed for a previous case. Three years ago, on November 16, 2017, a home search was carried out at the headquarters of Nitrogénművek Vegyipari Zrt., As well as at the headquarters of another member of the group, NZRT-TRADE Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Kft., Which deals with the wholesale. The accusations were found to be unfounded and the aim of the measures was deemed to be to intimidate Nitrogénművek’s president, László Bige, and damage his reputation.

László Bige is one of the richest people in Hungary, Peter Szakonyi It ranked last on its rich list, with assets estimated at HUF 112 billion. The main company in its group, Nitrogénművek Zrt., Which is interested in the production of ammonia and fertilizers, is ranked 13th among the most valuable companies on the Forbes list.

The prosecution also requested that Bige be introduced in advance last May, but at the time it was a different case. Later, Bigé was detained for two days after interrogation, suspected of violating waste management rules and other crimes, and the fertilizer king was brought from his home in Nyíregyháza by a police squad made up of several people. However, the Nyíregyháza District Court did not consider the preventive detention order justified at the time.



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