August 19th, 2009

Former spokesman for prosecutor’s office arrested on bribery charge

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A former spokesman of the Budapest Prosecutor’s Office, Gergely Varga, has been taken into custody for bribery, index.hu writes, based on an MTI report. The Central Investigating Prosecutor’s Office said Varga had been taken into custody on Monday. On July 27 he was caught accepting a bribe from a defendant in another case.

Budapest Head Prosecutor Sándor Ihász said on July 30 that Varga had established a sexual relationship with the defendant, and said that he would try to get her a suspended sentence in exchange for Ft 600,000 (€2,200).

Varga became spokesman for the Budapest Prosecutor’s Office on January 1, 2008. He was suspended from his post the same month, following his controversial statements about police officers responsible for brutality in Budapest in fall 2006.

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