We had a selfie with Hagyó on the Subway line 4!

Today Budapest is celebrating the Subway line 4 with a surprising party exemption. The whole media, competent and amateurs, oranges and red, passengers and BKV workers exalt the final form of the gigantic project.


And true what is true, it’s just enough to go down to one-one station to be completely floored for its own world and for the visions from the forms, shapes, devices and surfaces. I1m not going to even gush more about it, see it if you can.

We thought that we will ask a person on the presentation day, who was concerned in a more deeply way into the project just to cut the strip. Thus through his lawyer we contacted Miklós Hagyó former socialist deputy lord mayor, who – although didn’t cut a stripe today – was responsible for the investment during his office period and (since then it turned out that wrongly, without a reason, with fake cause) he was in pre-trial detention for it.


Miklós Hagyó in the beginning – kept himself for his muteness in the last 4 years – didn’t want to declare, however he called us back during the day to send a short message to everyone who was concerned with the building operations. He did it in this way without any verbal comment:




„From the people who created the idea to the person who pull the last screw, we, thousands of Hungarian people can be proud and we can thank to God that a big building operation like this came true uniquely in the world without any accident.”

Capacity and competence – we report from the court room

The consulting contracts signed by AAM Ltd were discussed again on Tuesday at the BKV case’s hearing.

The last Tuesday hearing was an interesting day in the history of the „strudel dough length” BKV case. The honorable court discussed the count regarding the AAM Ltd’s consulting contracts, obviously not for the first time. Given that more witnesses have already spoken regarding these contracts, but now the company’s onetime CEO was standing before the court.

And he didn’t hold himself back.




For the judge’s question he already stated it in his first sentence that he doesn’t understand how the company lead by him got into this case. In his person he is feeling himself offended that regarding the AAM Ltd’s activities because of the politics and the media, the company’s professional reputation has been damaged. This thought followed through the witness’s testimony.

With the contract splitting, the BKV lost billions – Népszava article

The AAM Ltd’s consulting contracts were discussed again on Tuesday, on another day of the BKV case’s hearings. According to the AAM Ltd’s onetime president and CEO, regarding the total investment the amount of loss can be measured in 10 million forints what they could’ve saved if the BKV wouldn’t have terminated the contract with the company.




The witness was a founder of the AAM Ltd. in 1994, where he was managing director until 2003 and then CEO until December 31 2007, since then he is the president of the company. The AAM finished his first job for the BKV in 1996 and in the following years they’ve been in continuous contact with the transportation company completing annually 1-2 assignments for 5-10 million forints. Since 1999 administrative authorities were also clients of the company, as market leaders they were in the BKV’s prequalification system for 15 years. The company employed 230 people in 2007 from which 140 had 5-8 years of experience. 

Remarkable turn: the project director doesn’t accuse Miklós Hagyó

There has been a turn in the BKV case on the Tuesday hearing, since the leader of the Subway line 4 project company unsaid his negative statements given by him during the investigation concerning the first accused Miklós Hagyó as a result of the questions of the defense and the documentary evidences.





At the Kecskemét Tribunal the witness who was the leader of the innovation Éva H. for example stated regarding Hagyó’s press person that the way she knew that the lady worked for the former deputy lord mayor is that he talked with her about it. However the defenders presented contracts that have proven that the witness has left the project before Éva H. started to work at the City Hall.

BKV case: the consultancy wasn’t unnecessary

The BKV case’s new testimony also didn’t favor the accusation: it has been revealed that based on the consulting contract - the subject of the accusation - an outside company did a useful and important job for the transportation company regarding the Subway line 4 investment. 

The witness who requested his personal information’s closed handling and who was questioned on the hearing was working as the company’s leading consultant. The witness answered the questions about 3 contracts, including the consulting contracts related to Subway line 4, which was also discussed.



As he said, the company already worked for the BKV in 1996. He stated about the contract related to the subway that the person who was responsible for the investment contacted them about the company making a study regarding the situation of the project. 

The actual signing of the contract happened after the arrangements have been made with the former CEO of the BKV. There was a two week deadline for the first phase, so the fulfillments have been made before the signing of the contract and has been started right after the verbal agreement. 8-10 consultants worked on the assignment in 12-13 hours a day. The witness gave a detailed report about the work they’ve done. It has been revealed from his report that they’ve done a great amount of work in a short time.

The accusation weakened again in the BKV case

The BKV case continued with the hearing of two witnesses at the Kecskemét Tribunal. Both of them made a statement about the investment made in Subway line 4, and about a job ordered by a consulting firm. They didn’t confirm the accusations.






One of the witnesses of the BKV case’s Tuesday hearing was Imre Ikvai-Szabó, who was working as Budapest’s deputy lord mayor at the same time as Miklós Hagyó. While Hagyó was responsible for the professional matters at the cabinet, Ikvai-Szabó was responsible for the financial ones. As he told, the disbursement system of the public utility companies was regulated so closely, that in practice, the City Hall didn’t have a say in the matter. He and Hagyó primarily dealt with contracts that exceeded the 5-10 billion forint value, such as the 500 billion forint worth Subway line 4 projects. He didn’t understand that meanwhile they dissect half million forint worth contracts at the hearing.