{"id":9592,"date":"2016-05-19T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T15:24:53","slug":"kiderult-melyik-londoni-luxushotelben-szallt-meg-lazar-janos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/kiderult-melyik-londoni-luxushotelben-szallt-meg-lazar-janos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kider\u00fclt, melyik londoni luxushotelben sz\u00e1llt meg L\u00e1z\u00e1r J\u00e1nos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cExpect breathtaking luxury hotel suites from some of the world\u2019s best designers; Michelin-starred cuisine from H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Darroze; pampering and wellness at the luxury Aman Spa, and the perfect Martini, served in the restored splendour of The Connaught Bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how The Connaught, a 5-star London hotel, introduces itself on its website. And this is the hotel where J\u00e1nos L\u00e1z\u00e1r, the head of the Hungarian Prime Minister\u2019s office, and one of his aides spent two nights on a visit to London in November 2012.<\/p>\n

\"Forr\u00e1s:

A Connaught hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

The hotel\u2019s name was revealed as a result of a public information lawsuit launched by one of Direkt36\u2019s journalists. The lawsuit started in early 2014, after the Prime Minister\u2019s Office had refused to answer questions about some of Mr. L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s trips that resulted in unusually high hotel bills.<\/p>\n

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On a 2012 November three-day trip to England the hotel stay cost more than 3000 euros, on a 2013 March two-day trip to Switzerland it was nearly 1547 euros, and on another two-day trip to Italy in July 2013 it was more than 1920 euros. No other trips of other officials of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office carried hotel bills that were nearly as high as these in 2012 and 2013, a period examined by Peth\u0151.<\/p>\n

In case of the England trip the government\u2019s legal representative argued that its details had been classified. During the trial the judge was given access to the confidential document and concluded that the details of L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s meetings are indeed classified information. The judge also said, however, that the classified document does not include any information about the hotel where L\u00e1z\u00e1r stayed, and therefore that detail does not enjoy any protection.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s lawyer argued that disclosure of the hotel\u2019s name will make it possible to identify the city where L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s meetings took place. This information is included in the classified document. This argument was weakened, however, by Mr. L\u00e1z\u00e1r himself. It was him who revealed it in an interview last year that his meetings took place in London.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was launched by Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151, a reporter of Direkt36, with the legal assistance of Transparency International. Peth\u0151 was represented in court by lawyer D\u00e1niel Karsai.<\/p>\n

L\u00e1z\u00e1r and one of his aides spent two nights in London in November 2012, spending nearly 3 thousand euros on accommodation. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office said that they are unable to tell how much L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s room cost, due to accounting reasons.<\/p>\n

In another development, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office does not have to reveal the identity of L\u00e1z\u00e1r\u2019s negotiation partners on his trips to Milan and Zurich.<\/p>\n

This ruling can be challenged in the Constitutional Court, said D\u00e1niel Karsai, who welcomed the disclosure of the London hotel\u2019s name. \u201cWe are not happy that we had to go to court but at least once the court issued a ruling, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office released the information, following the principles of the rule of law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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After a lawsuit that lasted for more than two years, the government disclosed where J\u00e1nos L\u00e1z\u00e1r, head of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, stayed during his trip to London in 2012. It was a 5-star luxury hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[522],"class_list":["post-9592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lazar-janos-utazasai","author-cap-andraspetho"],"authors":[{"term_id":522,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-andraspetho","display_name":"AndrasPetho","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592","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=9592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}