Gergely Andráska is suspected of receiving a bribe from the chairman of a Romany association promising him to arrange with a state secretary to win the tenders safeguarding that inspectors will avoid the association.
The police has arraigned three men charged with embezzling several tens of millions of forints won on Romany tenders and with fraud and trafficking with influence. The chief suspects are the chairman of the Association of Former Children In Care, one of the teachers paid by the hour of the University of Pécs, and Mr Andráska, candidate for the seat of an MP (Hungarian Socialist Party) in 2002.
The chairman himself lodged a report with the police, as he put it, ’to unmask the Socialist lobby’. The police and the National Bureau of Investigation caught Mr Andráska in the act of receiving HUF 1,2 million slush money in Budapest, a day before the Easter holiday. Gergely Andráska had promised to intervene in the case and bribe a state secretary. Later it turned out that his claim was fictitious. The association embezzled money received for drug prevention.
Translated by Péter Szentmihályi-Szabó
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