Although
it is not reflected in the registry of companies, on their official
webpage Márk Lazarovits is indicated as the CEO of the MVMI
Information Technologies Service Centre Ltd. Lazarovits ran the
Synergon Information Technology Plc. between 2007 and 2011. According
to the prosecution’s narrative – which they failed to prove –
Lazarovits had been supposed to hide the 15 million HUF in the
Nokia-box meant to Hagyó.
The
prosecution’s narrative and the indictment were based on the
testimony given by Zsolt Balogh, third defendant. However the
testimony was withdrawn by Balogh, meaning that the case was dropped
for the CEO of Synergon. It is important to note that for some reason
the prosecution did not carry out any investigation into Lazarovits’s
case and did not questioned him at all in the two and a half years
passed between Balogh’s giving testimony incriminating Lazarovits
and its being withdrawn.
The
Synergon Information Technology Plc. was a real predator of its
sector, the one single player who could achieve success competing
with the large foreign companies. Recently we can talk about more its
history than its story, since on the 22nd of December,
2015 the company’s general meeting decided for its winding up -
termination without legal successor.
Its
winding up was not the greatest scandal over the company, but the
Hagyó-case. Interestingly, by the time the prosecution had been
initiated the company ceased to exist. However, the myth of the
Nokia-box became wedded to Synergon.
The
Hagyó-case in a nutshell: according to the testimony given by Zsolt
Balogh, then CEO of BKV, Synergon wanted to have 30 million HUF
delivered to Hagyó – deputy lord mayor - by Balogh. The amount was
referred to as the “commission” on a software licence agreement
of 300 million. In 2008 and 2009 Balogh met Márk Lazarovits, CEO of
Synergon, many times – Lazarovits was supposed to hand over 15
million HUF hidden in a Nokia-box at one of these meetings. During
questioning the CEO of BKV, arrested in spring of 2010, stated the
story of Nokia-box to be true several times. The most significant
part of the indictment was based on these statements, therefore the
allegation immediately collapsed when two and a half years later, in
October, 2012 Balogh withdrew his statements.
What
is the most understandable part in the whole proceedings is that
during the above mentioned 30 months the prosecution failed not only
to extend their investigation to the CEO of Synergon but they missed
to question Lazarovits, although according to the prosecution’s
narrative besides being the most important witness in the case he
should have been suspected for the case of bribery.
When
all had been revealed at the trial the judge referred to the case as
scandal and the prosecution was forced to initiate a supplementary
investigation in November, 2012. The investigation was fairly
thorough in certain details, however they missed to question
Lazarovits – again. The supplementary investigation was closed
without result in summer, 2015.
Between 2013 and 2015 Lazarovits was the executive director of Costes
Ltd. established by Gerendai. In spring, 2017 fortune finally smiled
on the former Synergon-executive - who did business for billions with
Hagyó-like socialists before and also proved to be untouchable for
the prosecution: Lazarovits became a member of the board of the
biggest energy company in Hungary.
Source: https://blog.atlatszo.hu/2017/04/az-mvmi-informatikai-zrt-vezerigazgatoja-lett-a-hagyo-ugybol-kimentett-egykori-synergon-vezer/
Source: https://blog.atlatszo.hu/2017/04/az-mvmi-informatikai-zrt-vezerigazgatoja-lett-a-hagyo-ugybol-kimentett-egykori-synergon-vezer/
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