Embezzlement

The lawsuit in the case of Csaba Tarsoly is ready to start. The Budapest-Capital Regional Court found the indictment incomplete, so the Budapest Prosecutor's Office amended it. Tarsoly is accused with fraud and embezzlement.

Walter Meischberger, former FPÖ politician and accused of embezzlement, does not remember who gave him the information about the hotel deal which he transferred to building company UBM and received 600.000 Euro in return. The prosecutor does not believe Meischberger and accused him of getting money without any reward. It is also suggested Meischberger the received payment is bribery money though this accusation could not be proven.

The of embezzlement accused former FPÖ politician Walter Meischberger does not remember who gave him the information about the hotel deal which he gave to building company UBM and, according to his version, received 600.000 Euro in return. For the prosecutor Meischberger received the money without any reward.

Former politician Walter Meischberger is accused for embezzlement because of a 600.000 Euro payment form the building company Porr, a subsidiarity of UBM. According to the prosecutor Meischberger received the money as bribe to arrange the moving from Vienna's custom office to a building owned by Porr. Meischberger denies the accusation instead the money was for an information about an hotel deal.

At Wednesday the trail against former FPÖ politician Walter Meischberger started. About 600.000 Euro were paid to the accused Meischberger for which the investigators did not find any reward. According to the prosecutor Meischberger got the money from the building company UBM to arrange the moving of a part of Vienna's custom office in a building of the company. Meischberger denies the accusations instead he claims the money was for an information about a hotel deal.

An investigation of mismanagement of public funds was ordered against unknown perpetrators. The Panama Papers revealed that former member of the Parliament Zsolt Horváth (FIDESZ)and former party-treasurer (MSZP) László Boldvai's wife Csilla K. have interests in off-shore companies.

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, former Secretary General Jérome Valcke and his deputy Markus Kattner made synchronised steps to increase their wealth through salary increases, bonuses and other constructions,alltogether 80 million dollars.

According to opposition politician Bertalan Tóth (MSZP), one of foundations of the Hungarian Central Bank called PADA settled its deposits to Evobank with a way lower interest rate than the Central Bank's base rate. Evobank was related to Tamás Szemerey, who is Central Bank Governor György Matolcsy's cousin.

Csaba Tarsoly and other leaders of the Quaestor Group are under investigation for embezzlement, fraud and false accounting. Until the end of 2014 they have allegedly stolen 7,5 billion forints in cash. Quaestor owed investors a total of HUF 210 billion HUF when it announced that it was filing for bankruptcy.

Bernd Schönegger, Member of the Austrian Parliament, is found guilty for embezzlement in connection with a payment of 120.000 Euro from Telekom Austria (TA) to his party ÖVP. With him Michael F., a former staff of ÖVP and later head of Public Affairs at TA, and a promoter who used the payment for a local campaign of ÖVP, were convicted.