Report: Two ex-ministers from Orbán era held over suspected bribery and misuse of public funds

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Ministers from former far-right government arrested following 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 following Hungarian MPs voted to lift their immunity. The report also notes that Prosecutors stated 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. He has denied any wrongdoing.

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