The Bács-Kiskun County Prosecutor’s Office filed charges of budget fraud against the billionaire businessman Kristóf Nobilis in a case related to the embezzlement of more than two billion forints involving the Ministry of Agriculture. 24.hu found out. The newspaper’s information was confirmed by the businessman’s lawyer, Gábor Papp. Proceedings were initially initiated against the billionaire on suspicion of money laundering, but in the end he will have to stand trial for tax evasion.
The billionaire entrepreneur’s name came up in the Ministry of Agriculture’s abuse case last year, when a Swiss bank account linked to him was discovered, which Direkt36 wrote about in detail. In the main case, the former deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, János Nagy, is accused of having paid HUF 2.2 billion to two law firms by one of the ministry’s background companies with his cooperation, but based on the data of the investigation, they therefore did not perform any meaningful work. The paper writes that the managers of the law firms transferred significant sums to a Swiss bank account through a Budapest company, and the owner of the account was a Panamanian offshore company, which, according to the documents presented by the court, can be linked to Kristóf Nobilis.
Since Márton Nobilis, the son of the well-known businessman, is the current state secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy was also asked about the matter at a spring government briefing. Nagy then said that those involved in this no longer work at the ministry. The son of Kristóf Nobilis, Márton Nobilis, is still the Orbán government today secretary of state. The minister then said that studies were ordered from law firms that had worked for them before, that both the order and the performance were regular, and the work was paid for.
The minister said in the spring that he had not received a summons in the case, 24.hu now reports that, according to its information, the court will hear the minister in the case in December.
Nobilis’s lawyer also said that in the main case, former Deputy State Secretary János Nagy was indicted by the Fejér County Prosecutor’s Office, the trial is taking place at the Székesfehérvár District Court, while Nobilis was charged by the Bács-Kiskun County District Prosecutor’s Office at the Kecskemét District Court. According to the lawyer, the two cases were combined despite the fact that they are not in the same case section. Gábor Papp also told the newspaper that he thinks there is a serious contradiction in the indictment against Nobilis, he said that the businessman received back the details of a loan he gave to a company in the 2000s, and that he also failed to repay the entire debt . According to Nobilis’ lawyer, there is no question of a crime.
Kristóf Nobilis is a well-known billionaire businessman who was previously a business partner of Zoltán Spéder and Mária Schmidt in Budapesti Ingatlan Sznósíszátsi és Fejlstési Nyrt.
