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Péter Magyar said on Facebook that the National Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office (NVVH) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NNI) were continuing their investigations.
The NVVH said on Monday that several people had been apprehended in a human trafficking case in Budapest and Pest County. Arrests and house searches were under way at several locations in the capital and Pest County as part of the operation.
NNI investigators and NVVH staff were carrying out investigative measures simultaneously and jointly in two ongoing criminal proceedings. Details of the crimes and the investigative measures are expected to be announced in the afternoon. The Central Chief Prosecution Office of Investigation (KNYF) told MTI on April 24 that it had ordered the one-month arrest of two suspects in a case linked to temporary staffing agencies at the Central District Court of Buda.
Investigators believe the suspects had promised the smooth arrangement of residence permits for employment “by citing their relationships of trust with influential officials”, and had then divided up 17,000 euros received as an advance from a businessman for that purpose with a fellow suspect. The KNYF said it questioned four people as suspects for influence peddling and other offences, and two of them have been detained. It said the court had granted their motion for the suspects’ arrest, arguing that they posed a flight risk and a risk of going into hiding and of obstructing evidence.
Opposition Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán said on Facebook that he was the actual target of the operation, and his brother was “merely a means to an end”.
Orbaán said the government on Monday should be answering questions before parliament’s national security committee concerning the dislosure of the communist-era secret-service files.
“The settling of scores is being used as a distraction,” Orbán said. “What’s happening in Hungary is not accountability but a settling of scores. When something is inconvenient for the government, the AVH steps in,” he said, in reference to the communist-era secret police.
“The aim of this dirty game is to eliminate the political opponent and build a one-party system,” Orbán said, adding that “I am the target, my brother is merely a means to an end.”
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