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E-PM asks for European probe into Hungary M4 motorway
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Budapest, January 3 (MTI) – The opposition E-PM alliance is asking European institutions to probe the costs of a motorway section in eastern Hungary.
E-PM co-leader Benedek Javor told a press conference on Friday that the M4 section between Abony and Fegyvernek had cost a total 110 billion forints (EUR 370m), 3.8 billion per kilometre. This, he insisted, is the costliest such project “in the history of Hungary’s motorways”.
Javor noted that the section, built on flatland, was one billion forints more expensive per kilometre than another section of the M7 built in rolling countryside in the west.
E-PM is turning to the European Commission’s anti-fraud office and the European Court of Audit to establish whether national and EU funds were appropriately utilised and whether there was any evidence of graft or kickbacks to a political party, Javor said.
In his appeal to the European forums, Javor said there was a suspicion that a part of the funds paid to contractors, including a company associated with the ruling Fidesz party, may have landed with Fidesz as illegal party financing.