In the past few days, authorities have questioned another suspect in the EU funds fraud case surrounding Catalin in the Czech Republic. The investigation of the HUF 4.8 billion crime is being conducted on more and more leads, getting closer and closer to the current representative of the European Parliament. We’ve summed up where the case is now.
Another twist occurred in the $4.8 billion Czech Catalanic corruption scandal. In the complex investigation, more and more evidence and facts supporting the suspicions emerged. The National Tax and Customs Bureau questioned another person as a suspect. The capital’s public prosecutor’s office announced that, according to well-founded suspicion, the man was an accomplice to one of the suspects in the case.
Earlier in the investigation, NAV had already interrogated one of the suspects, a company administrator in the company’s network. The investigation committee has previously confiscated assets worth billions of dollars.
The particular significance of the case lies in the fact that Catalin Cheh is the European Parliament representative for Momentum, which has been fighting lies for many years to prevent Hungary from getting the resources it rightfully deserves.
What’s in the background?
Katka’s father, Tibor Sheh, founded the company in 2010. At the time when the largest bidding funds were withdrawn, according to the company’s registry, the representative of the EP was the managing director of the company. Pannonia Nyomda Kft. Initially with 68 million HUF in tender. The stated goal was to develop 3D technology. HoloTech Switzerland AG, a member of the Mesh network, and the Swiss owner of Holotech Hungary Kft., developed hologram technology as early as 2013. They have participated in ten EU tenders in whole or in part with the same technological development.
In many cases, headquarters, branch offices, and company directors were the same, but not simply by showing a match between the supplier’s personnel and the project implementation site.
The choice of site was not accidental either, as Vac and Sirak are both remote settlements, and the European Union’s grant funding mechanism prioritizes rural and economically smaller settlements. With this Budapest-based Pannónia Nyomda Kft cheated the system, the network of companies thus damaged the EU by 4.8 billion HUF. Prior to that, Pannonia Nyomda Kft. Exclusively Budapest XIII. District, its registered office was in Frangipan Street.
The curious addition is that enforcement action has been taken against Pannónia Nyomda Kft.17 times for tax arrears. Under the direction of Katalin Cseh, they used a Czech company to distribute invoices in the company’s network and also produced dummy receipts. Because of the leads emerging in the Czech Republic, the Hungarian authorities requested and obtained legal assistance from the Prague District Prosecutor’s Office, reinforcing the suspicions. The leads also lead to Lithuania who has also provided legal assistance to the relevant Hungarian authorities.
In light of the above facts, it can be said that Chih and his associates established and established an active and complex transnational criminal organization.
Many reports and investigations have been opened in the case
The case had a major impact, especially with the collapse of Katalin Che’s anti-Hungarian rhetoric. Initially, Gyula Budai, a member of the Fidesz Parliament, complained about the case to the police and the relevant Hungarian authorities. The Fidesz EP representative, Tamas Deutsch, reported the scandalous case to the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
The Commission then informed the politician that it had started preparing for the investigation of Catalin Cesca in connection with the suspected corruption case, and also informed him that additional data and information was being collected. The investigative authorities had previously conducted several searches of the company’s headquarters and a number of suspects.
It was also found that the authorities also confiscated assets worth billions of dollars. After the complaints, the Public Procurement Authority also launched an investigation and put the tentacles draining EU funds under investigation. It has been proven that companies coordinated their behavior in a way that breached public procurement rules and committed a crime.
The Economic Competition Authority also filed a complaint with the Authority’s General Criminal Directorate against the unknown perpetrator on suspicion of budget fraud, and the Authority also initiated competition monitoring procedures in the case.
Based on the data and information discovered and obtained in the process, the Economic Competition Authority also initiated a new complaint procedure, submitted a report to the General Directorate for Crime Prevention of NAV on suspicion of budget fraud, and notified the Public Procurement Authority and the European Anti-Fraud Office. .
– The Economic Competition Authority informed Orrego.
