Hungarian prosecutors have confirmed that the national tax authority is conducting an investigation into suspicious business dealings connected to a former company of Márk Radnai, a senior figure in the Tisza Party, Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reported.
According to the prosecution service supervising the case, the investigation was launched by the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary (NAV) following a complaint submitted by Gyula Budai. The authorities said they were able to identify an ongoing investigation related to the complaint, while further details should be requested from the tax office.
Budai’s complaint alleges several criminal offences, including falsification of public documents, fictitious transfer of business shares and budget fraud. The case concerns transactions linked to a former company associated with Radnai.
According to information that has emerged so far, the investigation centres on suspected irregularities at Story Chef Ltd, a company previously connected to Radnai. Budai claims that questionable transactions may have taken place there and that the firm later operated under the name Valmiera Plus Ltd.
The government commissioner has published several details about the case, alleging that two homeless individuals were used as nominal company executives. He said Radnai regularly met them in the office of Mór Víg, a lawyer previously linked to another well-known case.
Budai also claimed that while one of the homeless executives, Attila Kasztel, formally headed the company, Story Chef, allegedly accepted fictitious invoices worth hundreds of millions of forints from a company called Punto Seguro Ltd. According to these claims, the funds paid out through the invoices were later returned in cash to Radnai.
The Punto Seguro company, he added, may have been created specifically to channel the money listed on the fictitious invoices. According to earlier statements, the firm was liquidated in 2024 after accumulating a tax debt of about 150 million forints.
Radnai has denied the allegations. However, Budai has also published excerpts from witness testimony that he says support the claims about the use of homeless intermediaries, fictitious invoices and the alleged disappearance of the company.
In a new development on Tuesday, the government commissioner released part of the record from the questioning of one of the suspected intermediaries, Attila Kasztel. According to the document, investigators suspect that Kasztel deliberately persuaded lawyer Mór Víg to submit documents that led to another individual, Tamás Andrási, being registered as an executive officer of Valmiera Plus Ltd in the company registry maintained by the Budapest Court of Registration.
The record states that although Andrási had signed the necessary documents a few days earlier, he did not actually obtain control or representation rights over the company and had no intention of managing its operations. Nevertheless, based on the submitted documents and declarations, the court registered him as an executive in October 2021.
The case has drawn attention because Radnai is considered a close ally of Péter Magyar. Authorities have not yet announced any charges against Radnai, and the investigation remains ongoing.
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