In an interview with private media outlet TVN24, Hungary’s new Prime Minister Peter Magyar said that a former Polish politician facing embezzlement charges in Warsaw may have left Hungary via Serbia, Reuters reports.
Magyar is on a two-day visit to Poland, and the talks are expected to raise questions about how former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and his deputy Marcin Romanowski, who have been put on the wanted list by Warsaw prosecutors, were able to leave Hungary.
The two Polish politicians, who are accused of embezzlement, including using the funds to purchase spyware called Pegasus, which can infect the mobile phones of political rivals, were granted asylum in Hungary by Magyar’s predecessor Viktor Orban. Ziobro is currently in the United States, while Romanowski’s whereabouts are unknown.
Magyar said that, as far as he knew, Ziobro left through the Schengen area the day before his inauguration.
There were also indications that Romanowski had also left Hungary via Serbia,
but that information had not yet been confirmed. The Serbian Foreign Ministry had not yet commented.
Magyar is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Karol Nawrocki in Poland, and then Magyar will travel with Tusk to Gdansk to meet with Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Polish President Lech Walensa.
Warsaw plans to offer Budapest access to the US LNG terminal in Gdansk. It is scheduled to start operating in 2028. Magyar has indicated that he would like lower prices, and they are not yet competitive.
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