Lóránd Szabó, the independent mayor of Dombóvár, west Hungary, was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting embezzlement in a case dating back to 2003.
According to prosecutors, Szabó ordered the town’s bursary, without backing from the local assembly, to transfer HUF 21 million to local government-owned companies to help them raise their own funding needed to apply for a state contract.
The money was subsequently wired back to the local government.
The court ruled the sentence suspended for three years.
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If this rather petty-crime (the aim was not to steal any money, just to prop up the government-owned companies temporary, which happens all the time in the private sphere) is punished with 2 year in prison, how many decades will the previous Esztergom Mayor get for causing enormous debts and illegally used local government property as security for bank-loans, get?
Oh, forgot, the Esztergom ex-Mayor is not “independent”, he is Fidesz and against that type of ex-Mayors no investigations are launched
On direct orders from Orban
Independent judiciary was the expression
The expression was Independent judiciary
Somewhere else in the world, but not in Hungary