György Matolcsy: The Story of the Erste Bank Blackmail Is a False Tale
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The Central Prosecutor's Office confirmed the fact of the house searches, but not the locations.
A house search and seizure were carried out, but according to the prosecutor's office, no suspects have been questioned yet.
Former central bank governor György Matolcsy called it a false tale and unthinkable that the vice president of the MNB responsible for financial supervision threatened the Hungarian CEO of Erste if his predecessor, András Simor, was not recalled from Erste's Vienna board of directors.
According to former central bank governor András Simor, the Austrian bank was blackmailed because of him.
The police questioned György Matolcsy, the former president of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, as a suspect in a criminal case for abuse of office. A total of seven people were questioned as suspects in the case on Tuesday, and all of them were searched and data was saved from their mobile devices. The investigation relates to a case in which it is being investigated whether there has been unlawful pressure exerted against Erste Bank. AND [...]
The National Bureau of Investigation questioned seven people, including the former chairman of the central bank, as suspects.
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