{"id":1888,"date":"2016-04-05T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2022-10-11T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:29:53","slug":"boldvai-laszlo-kilep-az-mszp-bol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/boldvai-laszlo-kilep-az-mszp-bol\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Papers: Hungarian socialist politician left the party as his offshore interest emerged"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Boldvai, former MP and the former treasurer of the Hungarian socialist party (MSZP) suspended his party membership after Direkt36 published and article about his wife’s offshore company<\/a> on Tuesday. Boldvai, who was the current chairman of the N\u00f3gr\u00e1d county branch of MSZP told the president of the party that “the revealed information entirely correspond to the reality”. He subjects himself to an internal investigation by the party, but doesn’t want to be a burden for the socialists, therefore he suspended his party membership.<\/p>\n

Information on Boldvai’s offshore interests was found by Direkt36 in the millions of documents that leaked from a Panama based offshore provider, Mossack Fonseca. The \u201cPanama papers\u201d were obtained by S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/a>, a German newspaper, and were processed by an unprecedented cooperation of journalists. The efforts of nearly 380 journalists from 76 countries were coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists<\/a>\u00a0(ICIJ). As a part of the team, Direkt36 also found the offshore company of Zsolt Horv\u00e1th<\/a>, a former MP of Fidesz, the current ruling party in Hungary.<\/p>\n

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Boldvai’s wife, Csilla Konti became the owner of an offshore company registered in Samoa in 2012, while Boldvai was a representative in the parliament. The company had a bank account at one of the most prestigious Swiss private banks and had thousands of euros cash-flow during its short existence. This is not the first time when the Boldvais\u2019 finances make headlines. Boldvai became relatively well-know in connection with the greatest corruption scandal of the 90s, and in 2008 he and his family was heavily criticised because of the huge mansion they built in Salg\u00f3tarj\u00e1n, their home town.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian radical right party, Jobbik filed official complaints in both offshore cases Direkt36 uncovered by the help of the Panama Papers.<\/p>\n

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Laszlo Boldvai made this decision after Direkt36 exposed, as part of the Panama Papers project, that his wife had an offshore company with a Swiss bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[440],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-offshore-secrets","author-petho-andras"],"authors":[{"term_id":440,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"petho-andras","display_name":"Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/av_Peto_Andras.png","url2x":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/av_Peto_Andras.png"},"description":"[:hu]Andr\u00e1s a Direkt36 egyik alap\u00edt\u00f3ja, szerkeszt\u0151je \u00e9s \u00fcgyvezet\u0151 igazgat\u00f3ja. Kor\u00e1bban az Origo vezet\u0151 szerkeszt\u0151je volt, miel\u0151tt a port\u00e1l r\u00e9sze lett a korm\u00e1ny propagandag\u00e9pezet\u00e9nek. Andr\u00e1s dolgozott a BBC World Service-n\u00e9l Londonban \u00e9s a Washington Post t\u00e9nyfelt\u00e1r\u00f3 rovat\u00e1n\u00e1l is. R\u00e9szt vett sz\u00e1mos nagy nemzetk\u00f6zi nyomoz\u00f3 projektben, k\u00f6zt\u00fck a Panama-iratok feldolgoz\u00e1s\u00e1ban. K\u00e9tszer is elnyerte a legjobbnak \u00edt\u00e9lt t\u00e9nyfelt\u00e1r\u00f3 cikkek szerz\u0151inek j\u00e1r\u00f3 Soma-d\u00edjat. T\u00f6bbsz\u00f6r tanult \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjjal az Egyes\u00fclt \u00c1llamokban: 2008-ban a World Press Institute programj\u00e1ban, 2012-13-ban Humphrey-\u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjask\u00e9nt a Marylandi Egyetemen, 2019-20-ban pedig Nieman-\u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjask\u00e9nt a Harvard Egyetemen. Andr\u00e1s t\u00f6bb magyar egyetemen is tan\u00edtott \u00fajs\u00e1g\u00edr\u00f3 kurzusokat.\r\n[:en]Andr\u00e1s is a co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the government\u2019s propaganda outlet. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers. He twice won the Soma Prize, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary. He was a World Press Institute fellow in 2008, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012\/13, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019\/20. Andr\u00e1s has taught journalism courses at Hungarian universities.[:]","first_name":"Andr\u00e1s","last_name":"Peth\u0151","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9172,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/9172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}