The background to the story is that a new report from the National Information Center (NIK), which was given to the left, was recently declassified and talks about money of obscure origin. The report includes, among other things, that Gergely Karácsony’s partner in dialogue, Gábor Perjés, paid a total of 506 million forints nineteen times between August 2021 and September 2022 into the account of the 99 Movement founded by the mayor. Incidentally, five transactions exceeded HUF fifty million. Most of the payments, roughly four-fifths, were made in foreign currency. According to the report, “a total of 917,695 euros and 3,900 British pounds were deposited into the account during the period under review.”
The mayor defended himself by saying that the extraordinary income came from micro-donations. An important circumstance is that the 99 Movement Association financed Gergely Karácsony’s failed primary election campaign in 2021. It is also no coincidence that Perjés paid significant multimillion-dollar items into the account of the 99 Movement almost a year after the movement became inactive.
The Magyar Nemzet previously scrutinized the asset declarations of Gábor Perjés, on the basis of which it can be clearly ruled out that the politician would have covered the costs from his own assets. Because of all this, István Tényi filed a complaint with the NAV, because he thinks that the suspicion of budget fraud may arise.
Does Perjés trust bank secrecy?
In the meantime, it is Origo wrote about it in his Friday articlethat money laundering could also be behind Gergelyek Karácsony’s campaign money of half a billion forints, the origin of which the mayor is unable to give a credible explanation to this day.
The paper reminded that if someone wants to deposit cash of over ten million forints into their account, they must provide a document to prove where the money came from. Of course, the author of the article wrote that it is possible that Perjés showed it to the bank – he was forced to show it, who exactly the donations come from, and now trusts that this information is protected by bank secrecy.
