The Fidesz had been curing – It could have been prevent the lot of penalty

Really it should have been only this, and then the Hungarian tax-payers shouldn’t have to pay the penalty damages because of the case transferences? It’s a public joke.

We can start this story from far away, but there is no sense for the enumeration. They will do this a few years later on the law schools, when probably the purpose which allusive the special criminal cases and which is supported by the 2/3 government will be a curriculum in there.


This made it happen that Tünde Handó, who was newly elected president of the National Judicial Office in the January of 2012, could appoint court which are equal in scope but it’s diverge than the general cognizance courts in politically tender cases, like the Sukoró’s plot change, the BKV case, or the trial of György Hunvald. The National Judiciary Office had the same charge from lot of sides, that they appoint these kinds of cases according a sin which countryside court has a stricter or more extenuate judgment, according to the earlier cases.

Let’s go to Kecskemét

The BKV case should had been trial in the Budapest Court, but Tünde Handó appointed it to the Kecskemét Court in the February of 2012, with the allude to the workloads of the other court. Against the decision the concerned people couldn’t make an appeal but they made a constitutional complaint and they asked for suspend of the process. All of this didn’t block the process, the appointed judge started the case in the Kecskemét Court. She questioned all the defendants and almost all of the witnesses. Roughly after 50 days of hearings December of 2013 came, when the Constitutional Court in their decision established that the laws about the case transferences were repealed by the Parliament and it’s come up against the Basic Law and against the international rules. 

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.”

Hungary, An Election in Question, Part 5

This is the final post of a new series from my Princeton colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, head of Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs Program.

Hungary: An Election in Question
Part V: The Unequal Campaign
Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
24 February 2014

Kim Lane Scheppele

Officially, the election campaign in Hungary starts 50 days before an election, so the race began in earnest on 15 February for the 6 April election. Once the campaign period starts in Hungary, special rules ensure that all parties are treated equally.

But as Anatole France once said, “In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread.”

We’ve already seen how the new system in Hungary was designed to push opposition parties into an uncomfortable alliance and to require they win by a substantial margin to win at all. And we’ve seen how the system of minority and foreign voting has opened the doors for Fidesz voters while closing them to those who would vote for opposition parties.

Not surprisingly, the rules for the campaign period itself also have a similar logic.

How Did Hungary’s Election Become a Circus?

By DANNY HAKIMMARCH 1, 2014


BUDAPEST — THE most visible poster on the streets here is not the one advertising the Deep Purple concert at the Papp Laszlo Sportarena. And it’s not the one for “Balkan Kobra,” a theatrical comedy featuring a stubbly hero sporting tight jeans and a Kalashnikov. And it’s definitely not the one for the Budapest Dance Festival.

Instead, it’s the one that shows three or four guys wearing neckties standing in a police lineup, alongside a clown. In one of the more ubiquitous versions of the poster, two of the men are former left-wing prime ministers of Hungary. A third is Attila Mesterhazy, president of the country’s Socialist Party and a current candidate for prime minister in the coming election in April. The fourth is Miklos Hagyo, the former left-wing deputy mayor of Budapest, who is currently the subject of a corruption trial.



An ad from a pro-ruling-party group features opposition politicians, a clown and the tag line “They Don’t Deserve Another Chance.” Credit Akos Stiller for The New York Times

The men, and the clown, appear above the slogan “They Don’t Deserve Another Chance.”

Given that political advertising has been sharply and abruptly curtailed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz Party, the pre-eminence of a political ad — on billboards, lampposts and the sides of buses — might seem surprising. But Fidesz, which has been widely criticized as taking Hungary in an autocratic direction since taking power in 2010, has become adept at controlling the message. It has rewritten the state’s Constitution, come to dominate all branches of government and held increasing sway over the news media. Meanwhile, according to the International Monetary Fund, Hungary’s economic output is not expected to return to 2008 levels until 2017.

Civil Unity Forum (CÖF) – flyer for almost 40 million

The smear „clown” campaign against the leaders of the opposition united leaders can be even 100 million forint for the CÖF-CÖKA organization which organized the Peace Marches. For the first wave the country was infested with huge billboards, and on the last week they started to spread their 16 pages colored publication in 4 million copies. 

This is shows the opposition leaders in the clown composition which is well known from the billboards. The cost of the campaign is covert by the CÖF-CÖKA. As they still debtor with the cost of the „They ruined the country together” action in the end of 2012 which is focused on Gyurcsány and Bajnai.




Lot of people march with the CÖF, but the supporter is little  PICTURE: ISTVÁN BIELIK


Because in the name of the „civilian” László Csizmadia answered to our paper for the question about their present cost he answered that „we don’t declare in this cases because we said it more times that we are settling and we can be settle”, the Népszava tried to guess the costs for the campaign books. It made us harder that the Hungarian Post Office Ltd. didn’t want to tell us the cost of the spread.

On their website according to their official rate is net 4,5 forint to allocate to the target the advertisement publications, which would mean gross 22,86 million forint, but the Post Office reported that this price is only available for the ”public senders”. (According to our information the Post Office asks from the parties a near tariff as the public senders tariff, which based on the amount in 2010 it got 3,5-4 million „campaign message” to the houses – the editor.) If the state company wouldn’t give a preference for the CÖF-CÖKA which is campaigning for the Fidesz then it would cost 14-16 million forints. 

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.

What are the concrete accusations from the prosecution against Hagyó in the connection with the subway line 4?

The BKV case continued in the Kecskemét court on the Tuesday’s hearing with the count which is about the study of the Subway line 4. The I/21. count numerically is the most remarkable accusation against Miklós Hagyó. Nevertheless that the making of the reports about the project wasn’t even in the scope of the former deputy lord mayor.





According to the accusation the unneeded study was ordered by the BKV from the AAM Ltd. for 50 million forints, but according to the accusation the city hall should have paid for it. According to the indictment in the end of December, 2006, Hagyó ordered Attila Antal who was at that time the CEO of the BKV that he has to get the analysis work done with the AAM Ltd. But about from the indictment it doesn’t come out clearly if the accusation entail against Hagyó that the quid pro quo of the contract should have been paid from other resource, or that the contract per se was unneeded. 

BKV case: the project which is hampered from inside

They heard more witnesses, including az expert on the Thursday’s BKV hearing in Kecskemét. If it wouldn’t be about a serious issue we could bravely state that the result turned out to be funny.



The expert IT witness earlier called the passenger informant system on the line of the local train a homemade do it yourself. At that time he stated that the system was working on 76 percent and according to him it didn’t even count as working. But now it turned out that the expert didn’t possess neither with profession in the connection of transportation nor with experience. For the answer of the questions from the defense he answered that during the audit he was only checking directly only one station where he was talking to BKV workers, and the other displays he only saw it when he passed at the other stations. He also said that he didn’t have time to disarm and check any of it. 

BKV case: the expert who supported the accusation washed-out

The BKV case trial continued on the Kecskemét Tribunal on Thursday with dissect of the BKV’S contracts with the connection of the local train of Szentendre. 

The prosecution tried to prove that the system is overpriced and it was a bad quality with the cancellation of BKV workers. According to the defenders they heard in irregular way and as a witness the CEOs of the two other applicant companies who lost. For example one of them stated distinctly if he is biased in the case or not.




During the testimonies it was even more surprising turn that the directors of the companies who lost – former BKV workers – in contrast with the C. C. Soft Ltd. they worked together towards the win of the 100 million forint contract. One of them for example participated in the transcript of the tender. The defendants could prove that the losers of the project prohibited the fulfillment of the contract from inside of the BKV. 

So far there is no decision for 150 days – Dear Constitutional Court, the summer holiday is over!

So far there is no decision from the Constitutional Court since 150 days in the case of the lawsuit transferences, so thus not even in the BKV case which is a special case.



We already wrote on the 120th day of the waiting that the Constitutional Court on the 21st of April, 2013 questioned Handó Tünde who is the president of the National Judicial Office with the lawsuits transferences and with the constitutional complaint in the connection of Miklós Hagyó and his associates. The complaint was born because they transferred the BKV case to the Kecskemét Tribunal (which Tribunal is already proved with political bias in the Zuschlag case) without the possibility of a remedy against the decision. The questioning happened with the exclusion of the public and the concerned people. 

"There was no precedent for a black ops campaign against somebody - 2010 february"

"There was no precedent for a black ops campaign against somebody - 2010 february"



(Photo Source: www.pecsistop.hu)

Here you can find another video about Miklós Hagyó. It's about the time when he was charged and because of the selections he had to resign from his district and from his Budapest mandate in the interest of the campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0QhHtd6Mj8

Studies

Here we have included academic recognition which the case has received.

State Audit Office of Hungary

Here you can find documents directly and indirectly related to the audit of Hagyó Miklós' deputy mayoral office and administration. The audit was conducted by the SAOH while Hagyó was in pretrial detention.




Legal Summary of criminal procedure initiated upon the denunciation of the State Audit Office against Miklós Hagyó.

The Unacceptability of Miklós Hagyó's Pretrial Detention

This is a very informative piece detailing the battle between Hagyó, usually acting through his lawyer,and the Hungarian judicial system. 

This document, like many others, has been translated in an effort to communicate Hagyó’s story to the world outside of Hungary. If issues of comprehension arise while reading this, please contact us at info@hagyomiklos.com




Miklós Hagyó's detention issue is quite simple. After reviewing the available documents here, anyone can decide - at least imposed on itself - whether the prior arrest of Miklós Hagyó is consistent with the Hungarian laws or even with basic common sense of ordinary logic.

The Official Acquittal: The Summary of the Legal Proceeding against Miklós Hagyó and Others in Relation to the Alleged Forgery of Private Documents

Re’sume’ of the legal proceeding against Miklós Hagyó and others because of forgery of Private Document 

2012th on January 16 Miklós Hagyó, his common law wife and his lawyer, Dr. Viktor Géza Szűcs were cleared of a charge of forgery-private documents by the court of first instance. On the ground of the published media reports probably was difficult to follow exactly what the case is about, therefore we tried to easily summarize with the facts of the accusation and clearing, we analyzed the law background of the case, and finally we discussed the solicitous in connection with prosecutor's procedure.




What exactly happened?

A new memorial stone was unveiled in the public cemeteryfor the 1848/49 gypsy heroes

On March 14 at 2:00 o’clock pm., in the Budapest New Public Cemetery at the „freedom fighters of 1848/49 plot, a memorial stone was solemnly inaugurated for the Rom (gypsy)national defense soldiers, the national guards and heroes who died a heroic death in 1848/49.




In Hungary, up to now no memorial stone had ever been inaugurated for the Rom (gypsy) freedom fighters of the said revolution.

"EL Miklós Hagyó: I am very tired and I am very happy"

After a long walk of Thirty-five days, thought the path of El Camino, Mr.Hagyó Budapest Deputy Mayor is back home.




Answering the question: would he redo his trip he said that he couldn’t answer at the moment, he would needa good night’s sleep before he could answer.

"Mr.Miklós Hagyó greatly helped over the past two years."

The home artistic swimmers postponed the proposed extraordinary meeting aimed at nominating a new President within a week. On Thursday, Mr.Laszló Szimandl, the Hungarian synchronized swimming Association (MSZSZ) Secretary General told MTI, that the reason why he was setting the summit forum on February 20, was because by then, it might be possible to sort out the differences between them and get to solve the current upheaval, which meant the resignation of President Mr.Hagyó, a Members of the Presidency. The suggested successor was to be Imre Pesti , a Fidesz politician.


(Photo Source: index.hu)

In the wake of the BKV (Budapest Transportation commission) scandals, the deputy-Mayor was forced to leave office in January, then, in December, the Socialist politician renounced his social functions, leaving the post vacant. The Association continued its operations without a President, but could not really function well after that.

Deputy Mayor-President of the synchronized swimming-sub-association

After the resignation of Mr.Csaba Haranghy, an extraordinary general meeting was held for a new President to be elected by the Hungarian synchronized swimming sub associations. Dr. Deputy Mayor Hagyó, a MOB member, was elected President.



The Presidency was also renewed, Gábor Csapó an Olympic champion, a water polo player and Olympic athlete Tamas Dala, a member of the water polo Olympic team, became members of the Executive Committee of the association.