Hungary Committee to Hold Hearing on Secret Service Detentions
The Hungarian Parliament’s national security committee will today hold a hearing on the detention of a former minister in charge of the security agency and two of the agency’s ex-chiefs.
Gyorgy Szilvasy, who was the minister overseeing the security apparatus under former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, was detained over the weekend along with two former agency chiefs, Lajos Galambos and Sandor Laborc, state-run news service MTI said. Laborc was also detained over the weekend and Galambos last week, MTI said.
The parliamentary committee will hold a hearing on the case with Interior Minister Sandor Pinter present, Agnes Vadai, an opposition lawmaker who chairs the parliamentary committee, told reporters yesterday in Budapest. The three were suspected of “anti-state crimes,” Vadai said without elaborating.
“I talked to Szilvasy’s family,” Ex-Premier Gyurcsany, who resigned in 2009, wrote on his Facebook page on July 2. “What is clear is that Gyuri was detained at dawn, suspected of an anti-state crime,” Gyurcsany wrote, referring to Szilvasy by his nickname.
Miklos Horanyi, spokesman at the Prosecution Service, declined to comment on the case when reached by telephone today.
To contact the reporter on this story: Andras Gergely in Budapest agergely@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Gavin Serkin at gserkin@bloomberg.net
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