The Hungarian Olympic Committee Purchased Clothing for the Olympians for over 300 Million Forints without Public Procurement.
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The MOB received a total of HUF 935.6 million in funding from the Ministry of Defense. The MOB should have conducted a public procurement procedure for the purchases, which it did not do.
The uniforms of the Hungarian team traveling to the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics were handled irregularly, but public procurement was also illegally ignored in other cases.
A money scandal erupted at the Hungarian Olympic Committee after the State Audit Office found that the organization had violated public procurement regulations. The MOB challenged the decisions of the Public Procurement Arbitration Committee in court.
The State Audit Office has uncovered a serious irregularity: the Hungarian Olympic Committee unlawfully ignored the public procurement procedure when purchasing sportswear and uniforms worth 308 million forints. According to the SAO, this is not a one-off case: the MOB circumvented public procurement rules on several occasions between 2019 and 2022.
The Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) has misused 308 million forints of the 935.6 million forints of funding it received from the Ministry of Defense. This is revealed in a report by the State Audit Office. The organization unlawfully ignored the public procurement procedure for the procurement of sportswear and uniforms.
The State Audit Office found serious violations of the law at the Hungarian Olympic Committee - The omission occurred before the Paris Olympics.
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