According to the report, the body has no evidence to prove such links, but asset declarations by Simon or his family members do not reveal “any legal, declared income” which could be identified as the source of the deposit.

Committee member András Schiffer of LMP told reporters that the lesson of the Simon case was that the whole political elite should be screened for assets.

Schiffer said that he “basically” agreed with the committee’s procedure but voiced reservation that “not even in a campaign” should anyone be “accused of crimes without evidence”.

He argued that the body did not have any information that would suggest that the Socialist Party had anything to do with Simon’s deposit.

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