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Magyar Orders Arrests After Immunity Stripped From Corruption Suspects
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- Prime Minister Peter Magyar ordered arrests of former ministers Balazs Hanko and Miklos Sesztak for corruption.
- The Tisza Party used its two-thirds majority to strip both lawmakers of immunity.
- Balazs Hanko allegedly misappropriated roughly 50 million euros from the National Cultural Fund in 2025-2026.
- Miklos Sesztak, former development minister now KDNP MP, faces a separate corruption probe.
- Operation Purgatory, launched in late June 2026, has produced only a few arrests.