Hungary maintains zero tolerance against corruption and everyone is obliged to report information on corruption to the authorities, he said.

“This is an obligation even for the Americans, but it seems they do not adhere,” he added. Audits currently under way revealed US companies’ involvement in VAT fraud but it is not yet known how deeply they are involved and “whether they stand on the good side or the bad side” because the investigation is not yet completed, Orbán said.

Thanks to a trilateral agreement signed between the European Union, Ukraine and Russia on winter gas supplies on Friday, it is now guaranteed that the Russia-Ukraine debate would not threaten energy supplies to Hungary, he said.

Commenting on the possibility of supplying gas to Serbia through Hungary, he said “we have enough gas to make some available even in case of trouble” so “the Serbs will not freeze”.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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