Parliamentary committee to invite U.S. charge d'affaires
Parliament's national security committee was reported to be planning to invite U.S. charge d'affaires Andre Goodfriend to a hearing in connection with the U.S. entry ban affecting certain Hungarian officials, the deputy head of the committee said after a meeting of the body today.
The decision came few hours after IldikĂł Vida, CEO of Tax and Customs Authority (NAV), admitted that she is on the list of banned officials.
SzilĂĄrd NĂŠmeth, of governing Fidesz party, informed the press that committee chairman Zsolt MolnĂĄr, of the opposition Socialists, would contact Goodfriend in line with the diplomatic protocol, and invite him to next week's committee meeting.
At the non-public meeting held today, LĂĄszlĂł TasnĂĄdy, state secretary of Interior Ministry, and officials of the National Security Service and (NAV) briefed the committee. Altough NAV leader Vida was also invited to the meeting, for unnamed reasons she did not attend.
NAV deputy leader ĂrpĂĄd Varga declined to elaborate to the press on his way out of the meeting but he denied being on the US blacklist.
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