Ruboszky said Székely had sent him a summary report last Friday that showed a disciplinary procedure had been started against a member of the staff in his office. Székely told the press after the hearing that one of his staff members erred by giving the impression that he could influence the date for the publication of a report on the needle exchange programme.

Daily Magyar Nemzet online posted an article on September 19 suggesting that someone from the ombudsman’s office had shared information in a report prepared by the office concerning a programme for drug addicts with the human rights NGO Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) before it was published.

Cabinet chief János Lázár said last week that if reports about an exchange of letters between TASZ and the ombudsman’s office concerning a scrapped needle-exchange programme in Budapest turn out to be true, then the ombudsman should resign immediately. Székely declined to comment on 8th district mayor Máté Kovács’s earlier remark that “the drug lobby infiltrated the office of the ombudsman”.

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