The acting Attorney General has suspended Pál Fürcht, the former head of the Central Investigative Prosecutor’s Office (KNYF), who identified Viktor Orbán as the person who ordered the operation against the Ukrainian gold convoy in March, from his position as a prosecutor. At the same time, the acting Attorney General initiated further disciplinary proceedings against Fürcht.
The suspension of the chief prosecutor, who resigned in June, was justified on the grounds that Fürcht had published information about the prosecutor’s office’s actions in an ongoing criminal proceeding that could not be verified by the public and was based solely on his one-sided interpretation.
In his statements, Fürcht explicitly alleged that the Office of the Prosecutor General, in disregard of its legal obligations and ethical guidelines, was obstructing a comprehensive investigation of the facts in a criminal proceeding.
In the opinion of the acting Prosecutor General, these statements seriously violate the organizational interests and good reputation of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
President András Baka (right) receives István Lajtár, the acting Attorney General. Photo: MTI/Róbert Hegedüs
In an open letter that Fürcht sent to President András Baka in late September, he leveled serious accusations against Viktor Orbán: he identified the former prime minister as the person who had ordered the operation against the Ukrainian gold convoy in March and claimed that, in the course of the investigation, it had later been determined which individuals were not to be questioned.
This was the first time Fürcht had directly linked the order for the operation to Viktor Orbán.
He has not yet substantiated his claim with publicly available evidence.
According to Pál Fürcht, in the case of the gold convoy and in another case involving IT specialists from the TISZA party, the Office of the Prosecutor General bypassed him by exerting informal pressure to ensure that no investigations were launched against the Hungarian intelligence service. According to TISZA, the second case involves an alleged attempt to hack its IT system, which was in the interest of the then-governing party, FIDESZ.
Pál Fürcht (right). Photo: MTI/Noémi Bruzák
In early October, Prime Minister Péter Magyar launched a scathing attack against the former chief prosecutor in connection with his criminal proceedings, which we also reported on. In a Facebook post, the head of government wrote that Fürcht had attempted in 2024
to fabricate criminal charges out of the incident at a popular downtown club in order to pursue political goals.”
Although Fürcht’s actions against Viktor Orbán may serve the interests of those currently in power, the nightclub case appears to have become a more pressing issue. As a result, Fürcht may have become inconvenient to those currently in power, despite his allegations against the former prime minister.
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Via vg.hu; Featured photo: MTI/Magyarország Kormánya
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