He said the secret services, the Defence Service, the Immigration and Citizenship Office and police have continuously been monitoring the process of obtaining simplified citizenship from the beginning.

Samu said nothing indicates that gangs have been engaged in such a business in Hungary. The Index journalist who wrote the article has generalised his personal experiences and what he had heard, as the number of abuses are highly exaggerated, Samu said, because there have been no mass applications for citizenship from Russia and Ukraine, contrary to the article’s assertions.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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