“We are not proud of him,” Mesterházy said about Gábor Simon, former deputy chairman of the party. He said the Socialists dissociate themselves from Simon’s past acts and consider them unacceptable. In effect, these acts represent a “punishment to the Socialist party,” he added.

Simon was arrested on Monday on suspicion of forgery. He quit his post as the party’s deputy leader and gave up his seat in parliament in February, after reports that he had undeclared assets worth 240 million forints (EUR 780,000) held on an Austrian bank account.

According to Magyar Nemzet daily, he fulfilled the function of “assetmanager”, and hundreds of thousands of euros worth of funds in his Austrian bank account were not his own.

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