Hungarian intelligence secretly followed EU officials: what is known about the scandal

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According to a joint investigation by Direkt36 and De Tijd, the Hungarian Information Office targeted investigators from the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), who once checked a Hungarian company owned by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's son-in-law.

According to the investigation, between 2015 and 2017, EU officials who worked for OLAF and traveled to Hungary were physically monitored while traveling by car and their phones were tapped. It is also added that it is a common practice for the Hungarian intelligence agency to search the hotel rooms of EU delegations visiting the country and download information from their laptops.  

"We are not dealing with fake news," said Bertalan Hawasi, head of the press service of Orban's office.

Budapest has long been accused of hacking the phones of journalists, activists and opposition figures.

For example, in 2021, Hungarian lawmaker Lajos Kosa admitted that the government had acquired Israeli spy software. And a year earlier, MP Daniel Freund announced cyber attacks.

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The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, Richard Moore, accused Russia of conducting a "stunningly reckless campaign" of sabotage in Europe, as well as intensifying nuclear war in order to scare other countries away from supporting Ukraine.

In Germany, citizen Dieter S. was detained for participating in the "DPR" and spying for the Russian Federation. The suspect monitored US military bases and planned sabotage on the routes of aid supplies to Ukraine.

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