匈牙利反腐机构两天搜出约1950万美元藏匿现金：部分埋在树林里，涉欧尔班时期的前部长塞斯塔克案
匈牙利国家资产追回与保护办公室（NVVH）11月13日表示，调查人员在针对前国家发展部长塞斯塔克（Miklós Seszták）的刑事案件搜查中，两天内在多地查获大量藏匿现金，总额约1950万美元，其中一部分埋在树林地下。
该办公室说，搜查于11月12日与13日在首都布达佩斯以及佩斯州、贝凯什州和诺格拉德州多处地点同步进行，两天共查获现金50亿7163万2000福林、265万8350欧元和125万7100美元，已于13日晚存入匈牙利国家财政。现金分别藏在树林里、农业建筑、仓库、一处住宅，以及一个隐蔽地点的高价值保险箱中。
塞斯塔克2014年至2018年在欧尔班政府中任国家发展部长，今年9月下旬被拘留。检方怀疑，他在任内通过国营巴士公司 Volánbusz 的二手巴士高价采购等合同非法获利逾110亿福林。同案被拘留的还有前国有资产管理人 Norbert Szivek 与商人 Dániel Jellinek。塞斯塔克否认有任何不当行为；在法院作出裁决之前，他依法被推定无罪。
NVVH 是总理马扎尔（Péter Magyar）上台后新设的机构，兼具调查与检控权，专门追查被指滥用的公共资金。马扎尔在今年4月的选举中获胜，结束了欧尔班16年的执政，并承诺清查前政府时期的腐败。近几周，另有两名欧尔班时期的部长与欧尔班之弟 Áron 在其他案件中被拘留；欧尔班的青民盟在其官网仍把塞斯塔克列为「政治犯」之一。
Hungary's Anti-Graft Office Seizes $19.5 Million in Hidden Cash, Some of It Buried in Woods, in the Case of Orbán-Era Ex-Minister Seszták
Hungary's National Asset Recovery and Protection Office (NVVH) said on Friday, November 13, that investigators searching in a criminal case against former National Development Minister Miklós Seszták had recovered large quantities of hidden cash over two days, worth about $19.5 million in total, some of it buried underground in forests.
The office said the coordinated searches took place on November 12 and 13 in Budapest and in Pest, Békés and Nógrád counties. The two-day haul came to 5,071,632,000 forints, €2,658,350 and $1,257,100, deposited with the Hungarian State Treasury on Friday evening. The cash had been buried in forests and concealed in agricultural buildings, warehouses, a residential property and a high-value safe in a secluded location.
Seszták served as national development minister in Viktor Orbán's government from 2014 to 2018 and has been detained since late September. Prosecutors suspect him of obtaining more than 11 billion forints in unlawful benefits through contracts including the state bus operator Volánbusz's purchases of second-hand buses at inflated prices. Former state asset manager Norbert Szivek and businessman Dániel Jellinek were also detained in September in the wider investigation. Seszták denies wrongdoing and is presumed innocent unless a court rules otherwise.
The NVVH is a recently established body with investigative and prosecutorial powers, set up under Prime Minister Péter Magyar to pursue cases of misused public funds. Magyar won the election in April, ending Orbán's 16 years in power, after promising to investigate alleged corruption under the previous government. In recent weeks, two other Orbán-era ministers and Orbán's younger brother Áron have been taken into custody in separate cases, while Orbán's Fidesz party still lists Seszták among its «political prisoners» on its official website.
来源：匈牙利国家资产追回与保护办公室
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