Ákos Hadházy, an independent representative, lodged a complaint against a known perpetrator because, according to his suspicions, competition in the affected settlements was “restricted and coordinated”.

Police have ordered an investigation into the matter of public procurement in the Heves County Third District, Ákos Hadházy wrote on his Facebook page. The deputy filed a complaint against a previously unknown perpetrator because, according to his suspicions, in the Hatvan district of Zsolt Szabó de Fidesz, “public procurement is eerily similar to what was seen in the Boldog István district.”

Fidesz deputy István Boldog was questioned in May this year on suspicion of taking bribes and committing crimes in a public procurement procedure. According to the indictment, Boldog received an unjustified advantage because he abused his official position and influenced the results of the evaluation of certain applications.

Backed by documents, Hadházy now wrote that in the electoral district of Zsolt Szabó, the same companies were invited to tender in 18 settlements for EU investments from local governments, which concerned mainly construction and energy renovations. As he writes, although the city councils – obligatorily – invited 5 companies to tender, they did not have constructive references, most of them did not carry out any real activity.

The politician, when studying the public acquisitions of the settlements of the district nº 3 of the county of Heves, sees therefore that they have “restricted competition with controlled and coordinated behavior”. He filed the complaint against an unknown author, an agreement that restricts competition in a public procurement procedure, and on suspicion of having committed another crime that may have arisen.

It has now been revealed that the Heves County Police Headquarters ordered an investigation on September 1 following the report.

on the basis of a well-founded suspicion that an agreement that restricts competition by entering into an agreement or participating in other concerted practices has been committed in a public procurement or concession procedure.

This is not the first time that the name of Zsolt Szabó has appeared in connection with an investigation. HE Hungarian nation In the spring of 2018, he claimed that a Fidesz deputy had to do with an overseas account in Belize with a billion dollars worth of 200 million dollars. Zsolt Szabó denied the allegations in a statement and filed a complaint due to the rumor.

The Central Investigation Prosecutor’s Office shortly afterwards ordered an investigation of the bank account. Following a written question from Ákos Hadházy, Péter Polt, the chief prosecutor, did not provide details, so it was unclear who exactly was affected by the investigation. However, what he described was that the investigation was launched in 2018 on suspicion of budget fraud and other crimes that caused particularly serious material damage, and national security data was also requested, but so far no one has been questioned.

Even then, Zsolt Szabó said that “it has nothing to do with the matter.”

(Cover photo: Zsolt Szabó, Member of Parliament of Fidesz).


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So far, no one has been questioned about Zsolt Szabó's 1.2 billion offshore account.


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An investigation is currently underway in the Central Investigation Prosecutor’s Office, but nothing more.

Fidesz's Zsolt Szabó is under investigation for budget fraud


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In his campaign campaign, Zsolt Szabó stated about the Secretary of State and his wife that they are the directors of an offshore company with 1.2 billion guilders in their account. They are investigating.