Orban also complained that companies with links to the right wing were not involved in the project, Nepszava claims.

The Hungarian-born Pataki was reportedly at the meeting at the now foreign minister Janos Martonyi's house.

The Central Investigative Prosecutor General's Office intends to interview Lauder over the Sukoro case, prosecutor general Imre Keresztes told Nepszava yesterday.

The Socialist Party said it also wants to know what Orban and Lauder had agreed to, and why the project had been blacklisted.

Politics Can Be Different (LMP) asked Orban to make public the content of his talks with Lauder. LMP caucus leader Andras Schiffer said his party had read the news that Orban had also received the investor “with shock”.

“We have sent a reply, as one should, and that party (the LMP) can make it public if it wants,” head of Orban’s press staff Bertalan Havasi told MTI on Wednesday.

Havasi wrote in the letter that Orban draws the attention of all investors “to the same fact; that Hungary is once again a state governed by the rule of law and the era of the banana republic is over.”

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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