Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány’s wife Klára Dobrev is in the process of buying a campsite in the Somogy County village of Kötcse, near Balatonföldvár, reports conservative daily Magyar Hírlap. Another prospective buyer, Erzsébet Nagy Póczáné, has priority rights, but the owners have not made a contract with her, which means the first applicant, Dobrev, could buy the property for 17.2 million (€74,000). According to a local resident, Póczáné has large debts.
“It is not certain that the contract will be signed, because the buyer is still undecided,” Mihályné Kővári, an owner of the property, told the paper. However, Póczáné should have signed the contract within eight days from June 24, and the owners should now be in negotiations with Dobrev, who said they could not reach Póczáné. The paper could not reach her for comment either, as the only time she answered the phone she quickly hung up.
Dobrev placed a notice at the mayor’s office at Kötcse last month to inform locals about her plan to buy the property and to ask those with priority rights to contact her if they also wanted to buy the property. Anyone living within a 15 kilometer radius has priority rights. Póczáné from Balatonszemes contacted her, but she became unreachable later, and a contract was never signed. Kötcse residents said they did not know Póczáné.
Meanwhile, a woman who said she lives nearby contacted local news portal Sonline.hu with information on Póczáné. The woman who asked for her name to be withheld said Póczáné owes her millions, has additional large debts and could not pay Ft 17.2 million for the Kötcse campsite. She also said Póczáné was managing a farm in Balatonőszöd, owned by a German individual, which was the scene of a murder last summer.
Obviously, the fine line between ‘minor intrigue’ and ‘irrelevant non-story’ needs mending.