US EditionMagyar Accuses Orbán Officials of Shredding Confidential Documents
Magyar said officials are destroying sanctions files and other records as he promised to investigate corruption and recover assets after defeating Orbán.
- On Monday, Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar accused outgoing Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of shredding confidential documents at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs related to EU sanctions against Russia.
- Magyar's landslide victory on Sunday ended Viktor Orbán's 16-year premiership, prompting the incoming leader to vow a crackdown on systemic corruption and restore institutional independence.
- Szijjártó, a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, allegedly offered sensitive EU documents to Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov; Magyar cited 'credible inside information' from ministry whistleblowers about the destruction.
- Incoming leadership plans to investigate expenditures and recover public assets, with Magyar vowing to end funding for right-wing institutions like the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, describing the prior government as a 'criminal organisation.'
- Hungary will no longer act as a 'Russian puppet state,' Magyar stated, aiming to unlock more than $20 billion in frozen EU funding while ending years of democratic backsliding under Orbán.
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The outgoing Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó was accompanied to the Foreign Ministry building on Monday by a Russian who was unknown to the ministry, Ukrainian website Yevropejska Pravda reported, citing its sources. The reason for his presence was said to be the "purges" at the ministry and the destruction of sensitive documents, which the winner of Sunday's elections and the obvious future prime minister, Péter Magyar, spoke about o…
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