Serious accusations regarding issuance of Hungarian visas

Budapest, February 21 (MTI) – The foreign ministry on Tuesday said no abuses had been committed by Hungarian foreign offices in relation to the issuance of visas since Péter Szijjártó took over the ministry.

Tamás Menczer, the foreign ministry’s press chief, responded to allegations by opposition politicians that Hungary’s visa centre in Moscow had issued Hungarian visas to Russian citizens without proper checks.

Earlier in the day, LMP co-leader Bernadett Szél called on Szijjártó and farm minister Sándor Fazekas to testify before parliament’s foreign affairs and national security committees in connection with the allegations.

Zsolt Molnár, the Socialist head of the national security committee, has said that the case would be on the agenda of the committee’s next session. Molnár argued that “a thorough and comprehensive overview is needed” of how it was possible that “large-scale abuses” had been committed in relation to the issuance of Hungarian documents.