Orbán Threatens Anti-Corruption Office Staff With 'Accountability' If Fidesz Returns to Power

In a September 13 interview with Zsolt Bayer on HírTV following his Kötcse speech, Viktor Orbán warned employees of the new anti-corruption and asset-recovery agency NVVH that if Fidesz regains office, their names would be made public and they would face 'financial and legal accountability,' comparing the agency to the communist-era secret police (ÁVH). The remark, aimed at an institution created specifically to investigate alleged Orbán-era state asset misappropriation, was widely read in Hungarian media as an explicit intimidation threat against civil servants and drew condemnation from Tisza and rule-of-law commentators as an attempt to deter NVVH staff from pursuing politically sensitive cases.