The internal war of the Hungarian Roma: embezzlement, fraud and complaints

According to Istvan Hegedus, current President of the National Roma Self-Government (ORO), Florian Farkas and his men left a more than HUF 120 million debt, besides their money-stealing projects. The relationship between the new and the former President has heavily deteriorated recently: since Hegedus also speaks about the suspicious affairs of Farkas, the latter and his men are working to fail Hegedus. Index.hu knows that the Prime Minister’s commissioner (Florian Farkas) set people his side with promises of assignments worth hundreds of thousands of forints.

For example, there was a property in Szolnok which was got to the ORO for property management, and then they gave back the property to the national trustee after 3 months. This three months costed nearly HUF 10 million to the ORO. Szolnok is the home of Florian Farkas, former President of ORO, and the organization called Bridge to the World of Work Employment Cooperative presided by Farkas is registered in the town as well. The Ministry established HUF 270 million irregularities in the entity.

Among the debts inherited from Farkas, the Roma Self-Government has several items of which you cannot know what their fate was. It is suspected that the same wage payment was accounted in more places, once at the expense of the state aids, once of the EU programs.

According to index.hu, the management under Florian Farkas is not easy to reconstruct, because internal mechanisms necessary for transparent management did not operate within the ORO. It was also supported by the investigation of the National Audit Office (ASZ) published in September.