Hungary Foreign Minister Is Shredding EU Documents, Magyar Says

As expected, Orban’s trying to ratfuck Magyar on the way out

His whole speech hits like a truck tbh

It’s funny, because just a few days ago they said, they are proud of the foreign policy and have nothing to hide.

Paper shredders go brrrr all day every day until the new government gets sworn in. Takes time to erase all paper trails of 16 years of corruption.

paywalled.

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Hmmm getting rid of documents before he moves into his russian penthouse to play cod with Assad lol.

We were worried he already escaped to Moscow, given his absence from recordings from yesterday.

Turns out he is just busy committing treason, because of course he is

Of course he is. The whole outgoing Orban administration will try to destroy all the evidence of their crimes.

**Article so you don’t click on Bloomberg’s paywalled article:**

Peter Magyar accused outgoing Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto of destroying documents related to European Union sanctions as he pledged to put an end to the country’s cozy ties with Russia.

The incoming prime minister and winner of the election said he had reports that Szijjarto was destroying documents at the foreign ministry in Budapest. He made the claims at a news conference on Monday, where Magyar said he’d work constructively with Brussels and unlock more than $20 billion in EU funds, which he called a priority.

Magyar has said Hungary’s historic election, in which voters turned out in record numbers, was a mandate to steer Hungary back in the European fold.

“We understand he turned up at the foreign ministry at 10 a.m this morning,” he said of Szijjarto. “The ministry where Russian hackers were let into the computer systems, and they are shredding documents relating to sanctions.”

“That won’t be enough” to stop crimes being investigated, Magyar said.

The pro-Kremlin foreign minister had become the face of Orban’s close relations with President Vladimir Putin, having traveled to Moscow more than a dozen times since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

During the election campaign, leaked transcripts of phone calls showed Szijjarto had volunteered to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov his services to dilute EU sanctions against Russia.

Szijjarto had called it routine diplomacy, while Magyar has called the minister a “bag carrier” for Lavrov.

The minister hasn’t been seen in public since the election, sparking speculation about whether he’s going to flee the country and show up in Moscow. A spokesperson for the foreign ministry didn’t immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment.

Magyar came back to the issue later in the conference when asked directly by a reporter about details of how he knew about the shredding of documents.

“People have for weeks been sharing with us information about astonishing crimes inside the ministries,” he said. He spoke of “credible inside information” and a number of whistleblowers.

Orban made hostility toward Ukraine the centerpiece of his failed election bid. He has been blocking a €90 billion ($105 billion) loan from the EU that’s vital for helping Kyiv to continue to defend against Russia’s full-scale invasion.

The Hungarian prime minister told Putin in a phone call in October that he was “at your service.” Szijjarto traveled to Moscow more than a dozen times since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is alleged to have regularly brief Lavrov on the content of EU foreign ministers’ meetings.

“Hungary would no longer be a Russian puppet state but would return to Europe,” Magyar said.

Szijjarto peti, the russian spy

Shred him, too.