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Two former Hungarian ministers detained over suspected bribery and misuse of public funds
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Ministers from Viktor Orbán’s former far-right government arrested after MPs vote to lift their immunity Two ministers in Viktor Orbán’s former far-right government suspected separately of misusing millions of euros of public funds and taking millions more in bribes have been det
Ministers from Viktor Orbán’s former far-right government arrested after MPs vote to lift their immunity Two ministers in Viktor Orbán’s former far-right government suspected separately of misusing millions of euros of public funds and taking millions more in bribes have been detained, hours after Hungarian MPs voted to lift their immunity. Prosecutors said on Tuesday that Balázs Hankó, Orbán’s culture minister and still an MP in the former prime minister’s nationalist Fidesz party, was taken into custody late on Monday. Hankó is suspected of misappropriation of funds.
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