Hungary’s parliament lifted the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar and two former ministers under nationalist ex-leader Viktor Orbán on Monday, so they could be investigated in separate criminal cases.
The probes against the Orbán-era ministers, who are suspected of corruption worth millions of euros, are the first graft investigations against top government figures from the former PM’s 16 years in power.
Magyar, who is being probed separately for alleged theft, specifically asked for his immunity to be lifted so he could clear himself of “character assassination.”
Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of lifting his immunity and that…
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