Paralympic Committee scandal: no suspect has been found

The chairman of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee has been taken to court by dozens of para athletes over the alleged misappropriation of the Committee’s funds. Last Thursday, the police ordered a house search in more locations, and confiscated documents and storage medium. Several witness have been already interrogated in the case, but no suspect has been found, hirado.hu reported.

The scandal surrounding the Hungarian Paralympic Committee’s leadership broke out in early May, when it emerged that the organisation’s chairman Zsolt Gömöri had been granted HUF 3 million in the form of non-refundable support to pay off his private loan from the committee.

Although the Hungarian Paralympic Committee’s supervisory board had previously found every detail sufficient in the case, in late May, both cabinet chief János Lázár and Zsolt Borkai, the head of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, urged Gömöri to step down.

Earlier on 2 June, it emerged that the Budapest prosecution office had ordered an investigation against an unknown perpetrator concerning lawsuits filed against the Paralympic Committee’s chairman upon suspicion of misappropriation of funds and fraud. Investigators later confiscated documents and storage medium concerning the case, but no suspect has been found yet.