The Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office brought charges against a former senior manager of the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) and several of his associates at the Debrecen Court of Appeal for the crime of accepting an official bribe committed by a senior official abusing his official position in a criminal association, in a business-like manner, and for other crimes, announced the Attorney General’s Office.
According to the indictment, a person working in a senior position at NAV’s central body until he was brought under criminal proceedings developed a confidential and then corrupt relationship with an entrepreneur from Debrecen, they wrote.
From 2013, the economic companies belonging to the entrepreneur’s interests provided each other with loans of several billion forints. Forced liquidation and liquidation proceedings were later initiated against some of the companies.
The entrepreneur was afraid that NAV might initiate proceedings against his company. That is why he agreed with the top manager of the tax authority that in exchange for technical items and cash, the NAV will monitor the procedures involving the companies, provide information about them, and intervene to ensure that the procedures end favorably for the entrepreneur, the announcement reads.
According to the communiqué, the head of the tax authority used his official position to influence a specific tax authority procedure.
They wrote that for all this, the former NAV took over HUF 3.5 million worth of technical items and was enriched by another thousand euros.
The former employee of the tax office established a similar corrupt relationship with another entrepreneur from Debrecen. As part of this, he received HUF 4 million worth of car use and a discount on the purchase of a car.
In the indictment of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the investigating prosecutor recommended that the court – in the event of a confession – sentence the former official to 7 years in prison, 7 years of disqualification from public affairs and a fine of HUF 8 million, as well as a permanent disqualification from exercising a public service relationship. In addition, order the confiscation of assets for the seized high-value technical items and more than 6.5 million forints – concludes the statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
(MTI)
