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Socialists-Párbeszéd call for parliament probe into Elios case
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The allied Socialist and Párbeszéd opposition parties on Monday said they would initiate setting up a parliamentary investigative committee to look into the prime minister’s responsibility in an alleged corruption case surrounding Elios, a company that has been investigated by Europe’s anti-fraud office OLAF.
Speaking at a press conference, Gergely Karácsony, PM candidate of the two parties, called the Elios case “one of the most serious corruption cases of the past 27 years”.
Karácsony insisted that the case showed signs of the use of “organised-crime methods” and that the prime minister’s son-in-law was also implicated in it.
He said OLAF’s report on the case had determined that the Hungarian prosecutor’s office “had been complicit in the crime”. Karácsony said it was clear that Péter Polt, the chief public prosecutor, was unfit to safeguard taxpayer’s money.
He said Párbeszéd would once again submit to parliament a proposal to establish an anti-corruption agency.