May 17, 2010, 9:57 CET
Police hold ex-deputy mayor Hagyó
Budapest Police detained former deputy mayor Miklós Hagyó on suspicion of three cases of misuse of funds at Budapest Transport Company BKV on Friday, minutes after he lost his right to immunity as the new MPs were sworn in.
Police also detained Hagyó's spokeswoman Éva Horváth and PR official Ottó Lelovics. Police moved after receiving a tip-off from an unverified source that Hagyó was planning to leave Hungary for Israel.
Police say it was on Hagyó's instructions that former BKV managing director Attila Antal concluded a Ft 50 million contract with AAM on an study related to the ongoing fourth metro line number project. Hagyó merely used it for his report to City Hall's authority's budget committee, Népszabadság observed.
Hagyó is also suspected of misuse of the funds for suburban railway line HÉV's passenger information supply system. Although the system did not work properly, CC Soft collected Ft 39.6 million plus VAT.
Hagyó also allegedly gave instructions to Antal and another deputy BKV CEO Zsolt Balogh that were irreconcilable with BKV's asset management goals, causing the company considerable financial disadvantage.
The Christian Democrats' Budapest city council caucus filed the report against Hagyó with the police on July 29, 2009.
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Put all the Communist thieves behind bars...
Obviously the Prosecutions case is not extremely strong, then they would have (or *should* have) moved for an arrest by asking the Parliament to suspend Hagyó's immunity, not just wait until it was finished
Hagyó knew his immunity was about to expired, so why should he wait until after that point in time to flee?
Immunity from prosecution for MPs is a nonesense anyway. Why on earth should they be above the law? They are supposed to be the guardians of democracy, not seperate from it.
Freedom from slander charges or defamation charges so that they can say what they wish inside parliament is acceptable but from normal criminal prosecution? No wonder people mistrust them, all of them!
Immunity from prosecution for MPs is a nonesense anyway. Why on earth should they be above the law? They are supposed to be the guardians of democracy, not seperate from it
Abácsi at May 17, 2010 12:29 PM
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MPs are not immune, just when they are campaigning and elected.
The reason is that it should not be a tactic to report your political opponent to the Police and get him/her arrested and therefore out of the way for your political ambitions.
It is the way politicians sit on top of the Law Enforcers, to stop Police and Prosecutions playing political roles
If the Parliament has a 2/3rd majority it can strip any of its members from immunity, this is to take care of the case when an MP kills his wife, etc