Parliament Lifts Immunity of PM Magyar and Two Orbán-Era Ministers; Ex-Culture Minister Hankó Detained
On September 28 Hungary's parliament voted to lift the immunity of PM Péter Magyar (who requested it, to answer a theft probe over an alleged 2024 phone-in-the-Danube incident) and two Orbán-era ministers: Balázs Hankó, ex-culture minister, suspected of embezzling over €40 million, and Miklós Seszták, ex-development minister, suspected of about €30 million in bribes tied to bus tenders. Fidesz-KDNP boycotted the session. Hankó was taken into custody late that day. These are the first corruption probes of top Orbán-era figures; Magyar framed them as 'Operation Purge'. Orbán denounced 'neo-communist tactics'.
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