The Magical Nokia-box - part 14

Why was the BKV lawsuit reassigned – twice – to Kecskemét?

The new Fundamental Law of Hungary granted Tünde Handó, president of the National Office for the Judiciary, the right to (re)assign the BKV-case to the Court of Kecskemét famous for giving unreasonably severe court decisions. According to the plans the judgement would be passed in the peak period of the campaign, 2014. The plan itself failed, however the BKV-case resulted in a “legal horror story”. Although the Constitutional Court stated that the reassignment of the case violated the law, the courts involved began passing the BKV-case to each other until it finally got back to Kecskemét again.

Was the possibility of the reassignment of lawsuits involved in the law because of the BKV-case?

Possibly, it was. The investigations in the BKV-case were already ongoing, when in 2011 the pro-government two-thirds of the parliament defined the term “case with high priority” in the Criminal Procedure Code. The related legislation made it possible that cases with high priority be assigned to a court by the responsible Prosecutor’s Office or referring to workload the president of the court could drop these cases. Since the Constitutional Court prevented that the Fidesz related Péter Polt, Chief Prosecutor, could assign the case to a court, another solution was produced.

Hagyó case: verdict on Tuesday in Strasbourg

They will announcement on next Tuesday in Strasbourg in the case of the main defendant of the BKV, Hagyó Miklós. The former deputy lord mayor turned to the European Court of Human Rights in 2010, according to him the Hungarian investigation who restrained him made a violation of law. For example they hurt a lot of item of the European Convention of Human Rights, so the support for the rights of freedom and security, the prohibition of the inhuman treatment, and the right of the family life. 

According to Hagyó they put him into pretrial detention unduly and extended it more times despite his deteriorative health shape. According to his statement „he had no intention to escape to abroad” and he cooperated with the authorities from the beginning. Hagyó also detriment that with the allude to the danger of collusion after a while they prohibited to his partner to visit him over the visiting hours. Hagyó was in pretrial detention for almost 10 months, after this they put him into house arrest. 

The Court of Budapest would send the Hagyó-case to another court

The Court of Budapest ask for to the transference of the Miklós Hagyó and his partner's case, and an other seeded case.

On Tuesday, the president of the Court of Budapest proposed at the president of the National Judicial Office(OBH) to transfer two high priority case- informed the Court of Budapest. That Tünde Handó is the president of the OBH, who is József Szájer fidesz-party politician's wife, the family friend of Viktor Orbán head of government, and whose nomination was attecked many times. 


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The announcement not tells, but according to the communicated details from one of these cases, one proceeding is Miklós Hagy formes socialistoc deputy lord mayor and his partner's case. How they wrote in their announcement, the president asked that, to appoint another court what has similar competence with the Court of Budapest, for Norbert W and his 27 others commited with especially significant financial detriment caused authorial or coherence with infrigement of literary property felony and other felonies, or rather Miklós H and his 14 others commited in a criminal organization, misappropriation which caused an especially huge financial detriment and becaouse of other felonies trial.