About 18 million dollars in cash was found in Hungary in the case of the former Minister of National Development. MTI.
Investigators from the National Asset Recovery and Protection Directorate (NVVH) discovered large sums of money hidden in forests, farm buildings, warehouses and residential buildings. Some of the money was in a safe installed in a hiding place.
The searches were conducted on November 12 and 13 in Budapest, as well as in several regions of the country, as part of a criminal case against former Minister of National Development Miklos Sestak.
In total, law enforcement officers seized 5.07 billion forints, 2.66 million euros and 1.26 million dollars. The total value of the funds discovered exceeds 6 billion forints.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar commented on the results of the operation.
"This is the official end of the Fidesz-CDPP mafia! The National Asset Recovery and Protection Office discovered and confiscated more than 6 billion forints in cash, buried and otherwise hidden, as part of a criminal case against Viktor Orbán's former minister, Miklos Štak," he wrote.
According to the prosecutor's office, Shestak is suspected of receiving illegal wages for government contracts in the field of passenger transportation, purchasing buses and construction.
The investigation shows that between 2015 and 2018, the former minister and the head of a state-owned asset management company may have received through intermediaries more than 11 billion forints in bribes from companies associated with Wallenbusch's transport.
In addition, Nestek is suspected of receiving more than one billion forints from construction companies and about 270 million forints for projects to build swimming pools and gyms.
On September 28, the Hungarian Parliament denied the former parliamentary immunity, and on September 30, the court decided to take him into custody. The detention was then extended until January 30.
Earlier, the investigators found empty safes in Sestak's house, in which, according to the investigation, about 9 billion forints were stored.