Fidesz Proposes Probe Into Graft Around Metro 4 Construction
- 7 Feb 2017 7:00 AM
The parliamentary group of ruling Fidesz has proposed investigating alleged corruption connected with the construction of Budapest’s fourth metro line. Erik Bánki, the (Fidesz) head of parliament’s economic committee, said that former prime ministers Péter Medgyessy, Ferenc Gyurcsány and Gordon Bajnai, as well as former mayor of Budapest Gábor Demszky and other former leaders should give evidence to the committee concerning the project completed in 2014.
He called it “impossible” that senior officials at the time of the construction had been unaware of “developments that led to the greatest corruption scandal of all times”.
Referring to a recent report by the anti-fraud office of the European Union (OLAF) on the fourth metro project, Bánki insisted that “about one-third of the project budget was stolen”.
“We want to know who the perpetrators were ... and where the money has gone,” he said.
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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