Hagyó case: according to a former AAM coworker the analyses for the BKV were necessary- HVG article

A witness considered the analytical and the subway investment screening materials made by AAM Ltd. to BKV – who were associates during that time - useful and necessary on the Thursday hearing of the case against Miklós Hagyó former socialist deputy lord mayor and his associates at the Kecskemét Tribunal.





The AAM signed 3 contracts in 2007, during the time of the accusation with the BKV. In these contracts they undertook the assignment of screening the subway investment, supporting the coordinating tasks of the Subway line 4 project, and also the expert support of the highlighted projects of the transportation company. The witness - who was the leading consultant of the AAM Ltd. during the time of the accusation - firmly traversed those statements of the indictment which says that the company performed unnecessary services for the BKV Ltd.

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.

Hagyó case - The number 31 witness called two contracts useful

The Hagyó case’s number 31 witness considered two BKV contracts important and useful on the Tuesday hearing at the Kecskemét Tribunal. They questioned the witness in connection to the accusations of the AAM Zrt. and the Montana Zrt.
The witness was brought to BKV Zrt. by the recommendation of Gábor Demszky, former lord mayor of the SZDSZ and he worked as deputy chief executive officer at BKV from April 2007 to December 2008 then left the transportation company with a several 10 million forints “step-down fee”.

They projected the electronic mails - which were sent by Montana to BKV - on the wall of the courtroom, but no substantial information connected to the project could’ve been found.

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.

Coercion interrogations, magisterial malfeasances in the Hagyó case – WITNESSES (5th part) – RELOADED

In the hearings period of the BKV case, which is became called as the Hagyó case, the defendants and the witnesses in the case recalled their testimonies which was the biggest storm stirred. 

A lot of them referred to the fact that during the investigation against the Public Transportation Ltd. of Budapest and against a few former leaders of Budapest there happened several magisterial malfeasances. Ones reported about coercions, others revealed a lot of malpractices from the police during the investigation.

The police documents are bristles from the caveats. The defendants brought the attention to the court for falsely dated, lost documents and for documents which can have the forgery suspicion.




Our blog started a series for the explorations of these malfeasances. On the fifth round please get to know another case’s defendant – which known as the airport bribery- , György Sziebert’s story, observations. 

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.