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Miklós Hagyó ( Hungarian pronunciation: hɒɟoː mikloːʃ; born July 20, 1967) is a Hungarian
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and
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, a former
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of Budapest and a former member of the
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. From 1998 until 2010, Hagyó was active in the
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. Immediately following the April 2010 elections, when Hagyó lost his seat, he was arrested on suspicion of
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and breach of fiduciary responsibility. The
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against Hagyó and 14 other suspects is currently underway in
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.


Education

In 1989, Hagyó earned a
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in
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from the former Budapest University of Horticulture and Food Industry in
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,
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. After the undergraduate studies, he relocated to the university's Budapest campus in pursuit of an
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in Food Engineering from the Department of Economics. Hagyó claimed that he subsequently pursued doctoral work in the subject matter, but he was forced to abandon the academic project due to "political and personal life difficulties". Hagyó did however co-author a published scientific investigation into the "conditions of the food retail trade units in Hungary".


Career


Private Sector

Resulting from the fall of the
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in 1989, and the subsequent transition to a
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,
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saw a significant increase in foreign investment and trade after 1991. Taking advantage of that, Hagyó began working in 1992 for Wrigley's Hungarian operation, Hungaria. After working his way into an exclusive regional distribution position, Hagyó became involved in many
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food distribution companies. According to him, he enjoyed financial growth and professional success "thanks to the ost-Sovieteconomic boom."


Politics

In 1998, Hagyó became a member of the
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, citing
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's "personality and role" as his attraction toward
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. Four years later, Hagyó was one of 178
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elected to the
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, thus granting him the title Member of Parliament. Thereafter he served as the party's president of district XII in
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, which placed him on the party's national board. At various moments between July 2002 until May 2006, Hagyó was active in various
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s: Joint EU Institutions Committee, Regional Development Committee, Environmental Committee, and Foreign Affairs Committee. Also during that time, he delivered three speeches in
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, and he submitted a total of 55 independent and non autonomous motions. In 2005, acting as the party's chairman for nationwide charitable activities, he and Dr. Lajos Oláh organized Hope for
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. With the help of the Hungarian Red Cross, they collected and delivered food, medicine, tents, blankets, and other emergency supplies to residents in the severely flooded region. Moreover, he helped secure substantial funds from the Hungarian Red Cross in an effort to transport many of the victims to
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while the damaged communities were restored. Due to the social unrest of a 2006 scandal involving former
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, many thought that opposing
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representatives would oust the socialists from their
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in
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. Despite that, the
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-
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coalition incumbent
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was re-elected. In addition to holding his parliamentary position, Hagyó was appointed as
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of
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on December 14, 2006. As Deputy Mayor, Hagyó wield political oversight over the city's urban and asset management responsibilities. During his second parliamentary term, Hagyó was active in the following committees between May 2006 and June 2007: Economic and Information Technology Commission, the Commission's Energy Subcommittee and the Enterprise Research and Development Subcommittee. Also during that allotted time, he made three speeches to Parliament, and he submitted a total of 15 independent and joint motions. As a member of the
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, Hagyó was elected President of the Hungarian
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Association (MSZSZ) in 2007 after the resignation of the previous president, Csaba Haranghy. In a 2010 interview, MSZSZ Secretary General Laszló Szimandl stated in an interview: At that time, Hagyó was forced to resign from the
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and its associated position. He therefore was unable to remain the president of the
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association. According to promotional videos, his pride of his
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- an ethnically mixed community due to historical wars - and his recognition of
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soldiers, Hagyó is a supporter of
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. During a March 2008 speech recognizing the efforts of
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and
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in the
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, Hagyó reminded his Hungarian audience that the history of the
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, the
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, and the
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are regrettably more known than that of the Romany soldiers. Responding to the
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, Hagyó signed a denunciatory petition to promote Hungarian political support for the
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. While doing so, he urged all politician to come forth with support despite
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. Moreover, Hagyó stated:


Budapest Transit Authority (BKV)

In 2009, BKV was investigated by city's police and the State Audit Office of Hungary because of an employee severance payment controversy. Many of BKV's upper management were interrogated concerning possible involvement. Former BKV chief executive office Zsolt Balogh gave an interview to the daily newspaper ''
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'' (Hungarian National) on March 6, 2010 and a separate interview the following day to HírTV. During the interviews, Balogh publicly accused Hagyó of
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and
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. According to the accuser, he entered Hagyó's office "in late September, early October 2007" as the freshly promoted chief technology officer. Then and there, Balogh claimed, Hagyó dictated that Balogh must "be hard, because things must be done here, and who doesn't do it" will receive no mercy, and the throat "must be cut." In the same two interviews, Balogh alleged that during a later meeting in
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, Hagyó demanded from Balogh an annual "membership fee" of 15 million forints which would need to be paid directly to Hagyó. Balogh admitted that the following day he obliged to the demand. In the March 6th interview, Balogh stated that he met Hagyó in the office of Ottó Lelovics, former
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and communication consultant to BKV. Then and there he passed 15 million forints to Hagyó. Balogh stated that he knew "15 million fits in a
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box," so he hid the
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inside a Nokia box designed for mobile phone packaging. As a result, this
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has become known as the "Nokia Box Case" or the "Magic Box Case." On March 7, 2010 the online Hungarian news site ''
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'' reported that Hagyó resigned from his local and national positions in the
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. In the same article, the party's
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, István Nyakó, stated that the accusations had "not been about the truth." Nyakó also explained that other
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did not want the scandal to hinder the party in the upcoming 2010 elections. Immediately following the change of
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on May 14, 2010, Hagyó was detained by police. In addition to the
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accusations from Balogh, police suspected him of instructing former BKV managing director Attila Antal of concluding an unnecessary
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and misappropriating funds related to the suburban railway line HÉV passenger information supply system.


Pretrial Detention

On May 26, 2010 Hagyó was incarcerated at the Budapest Penitentiary in spite of numerous appeals from Hagyó's lawyer, András Kádár. kadar argued that his client suffered from numerous illnesses and no evidence supported the stringent measure. The signatory judge, Mária Szívós, cited the necessity of the coercive measure as prevention from suspect collusion and prevention of Hagyo fleeing the country. Prior to this, Hagyó, via his lawyer, András Kádár, expressed willingness to cooperate in the ongoing investigation. Hagyó's initial release date was June 17, 2010. The prosecution repeatedly proposed sentence extensions, which were approved by the Pest Central District Court and confirmed by the Municipal Court. Hagyó was released from
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into house arrest on February 13, 2011, and he remained on house arrest until June 8, 2011. On September 6, 2010, 11 days before his release,
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, was again to be extended via order 28.AJC.No.1850/2010/2., Hagyó and Kádár filed application no.52624/10 with the
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. In the application, they complained against validity of the pretrial detention and numerous prison conditions under Article 5 § 1 (c), Article 5 § 4 in conjunction with Article 13, Article 3, and Article 8 in conjunction with Article 13 of the
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. On April 23, 2013 the Court announced its decision, and in doing so they found that the Hungarian judicial system violating the articles associated with the complaint. While supporters of Hagyó's detainment agreed that he needed to be detained before creating further damage, the
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through which the decisions were made to imprison Hagyó received much criticism. A Hungarian
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student used the detainment and the subsequent trial as
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, focusing on the issue of basic rights established by the Convention. The main points of his contention were the prosecution's and court's unwillingness to allow neither Hagyó nor his lawyer access to the evidences. which, according to the former bodies, necessitated an extended pretrial detention, especially when Hagyó suffered from deteriorating health. As Hagyó was a young and popular socialist politician, some speculate that the detention and the trial have political, rather than criminal, motivations. This speculation stems from bloggers, academics, and journalists. Critics of Hagyó consider him a
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of
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-imposed
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, a symbol of corruption.


Forgery Accusations

While serving his pretrial detention at the Budapest Penitentiary, Miklós Hagyó, with legal oversight from Dr. Viktor Géza Szűcs, empowered his common-law wife to act on his behalf with regards to Hagyó's company, WIRTASS Trade and Service, LLC. on August 6, 2010. After receiving the authorization of the trial's prosecutor, the document was sent along with a letter from Hagyó's common-law wife to Brigadier-General Csaba Boglyasovszky, the principal administrator of the Venyige Street Penal Enforcement Institution. In the letter, Hagyó's partner states that the new situation would require extraordinary visiting rights. She was previously allowed to visit Hagyó once a month. In her request (dated August 17, 2010), she states that "I would also like to record, that the actual mutual confidence alone is not sufficient to provide or WIRTASS LLC.adequate, objective and rational basis for decision making." She therefore requested rights for two separate visitations per month to be "at pre-announced times in accordance with the house rules of the penal enforcement institution." Principal Administrator Csaba Boglyasovszky positively replied to the request on August 19, 2010 and granted her a visitation on the 26th of August, 2010. In the letter, Boglyasovszky stated, "Referring to the letter dated on the 17th of August 2010. I inform you that for visiting Miklós Hagyó detainee, to you as the legal representative is allowed." Prior to that, the television show Célpont aired by HírTV on March 21, 2010 allegedly showed material which were damaging to Miklós Hagyó and his partner. As a result, Hagyó filed a lawsuit against HírTV within the Budapest Regional Court. On August 6, 2010 Hagyó and Dr. Viktor Szűcs signed a document which granted Hagyó's common-law wife to act as his legal representative in the slander lawsuit. Hagyó presented this authorization to the prison via his counselor on September 2, 2010. The prosecution observed this and the fact that Hagyó's common-law wife lacked the necessary legal qualifications. They therefore filed misdemeanor forgery charges against Hagyó, his partner, and Dr. Szűcs. All three persons were cleared of the charges by the Pest District Central Court on January 16, 2012.


The trial

In 2016, Hagyo was found guilty of abuse of office, as well as financial malfeasance by a first-level court in Hungary. Miklos was cleared of charges of corruption, which prosecutors have decided to appeal. The appeals court in 2017 handed him a sentence of one and a half year, a decision which was not positively assessed by the ruling FIDESZ party.


Personal life

He is married to Beáta Csecserits. They have a daughter, Dorina.Hagyó Miklós vagyonnyilatkozata - 2003. február
/ref> Hagyó completed the pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago.


External links

* http://www.hagyomiklos.com (Hungarian and English) * https://www.facebook.com/thehagyocase (English) * https://www.facebook.com/HagyoFiles (Hungarian and English) * https://www.facebook.com/hagyodosszie (Hungarian)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hagyo, Miklos 1967 births Living people Hungarian businesspeople Hungarian Socialist Party politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010) People from Jászberény