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The Szeged Regional Court of Appeal ruled that a new trial should start in the case of the former notary of Budapest\u2019s District 5, who is accused of abuse of power. In its ruling issued last Thursday, the Szeged Court overturned a previous ruling made last June, when the Budapest-Capital Regional Court\u2019s acquitted the defendants citing lack of evidence.<\/p>\n
The main figures of the case are an entrepreneur, J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n, and the former notary of the district, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 R\u00f3nasz\u00e9ki. J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n was active in Budapest\u2019s central district through his construction company, getting several valuable contracts from the municipality while L\u00e1szl\u00f3 R\u00f3nasz\u00e9ki was serving as the district\u2019s notary.<\/p>\n
Borzov\u00e1n was charged of asking money for influencing official procedures of the municipality. According to the prosecutors, he was cooperating with R\u00f3nasz\u00e9ki<\/a>. The third defendant, a restaurant owner, was charged of giving money to Borzov\u00e1n so that he helps him obtaining a licence from the municipality. All three men denied the charges.<\/p>\n The prosecutor\u2019s office claimed that Borzov\u00e1n and R\u00f3nasz\u00e9ki committed crimes regarding two separate legal procedures. One of them concerned a restaurant licence. According to the prosecutors, Borzov\u00e1n asked 1.5 million HUF (4800 euros) from a then co-owner of a place called Zizi Bar in return for arranging a license needed for longer opening hours.<\/p>\n The prosecutor\u2019s case is based partly on secretly tapped phone conversations. Borzov\u00e1n claims, however, that the prosecutors misinterpreted what happened.<\/p>\n The rest of the charges involve a real estate deal. A company sold a property in District 5 in July 2012 but the new owner could not be registered in the land records as long as the municipality did not waive its right to buy the property. Due to the summer break, the municipality made this decision only in September but those involved in the real estate deal had to wait even longer. They needed an official copy of the resolution in order to proceed with the land records registration.<\/p>\n It was then that one of the intermediaries involved in the real estate deal contacted Borzov\u00e1n and, according to the charges, asked him to help them get the resolution. According to the charges, Borzov\u00e1n asked 500 thousand HUF (1.600 euros) from the intermediary but he refused to pay. The resolution was eventually issued in the middle of October, a month after the decision was made.<\/p>\n In a blow to the prosecutor\u2019s case, the Budapest Court\u2019s judge ruled that many of the tapped phone calls cannot be part of the evidence because of procedural irregularities. The Szeged Regional Court of Appeal decided, however, that the recordings should not have been excluded from the evidence, and ordered that a new trial should be held.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the defendants is the former notary of Budapest’s District 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[440],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belvarosi-milliardok","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. 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