“The lady not only offered to give the companies subject to an investigation for accumulating serious tax arrears the state of play and results [of the investigation] in exchange for hundreds of thousands of forints but also offered to [eliminate the tax arrears],” the paper cited the source as saying.

The contractor told the paper that ever since reporting the suspicions to police, they had received several phone threats.

NAV told Blikk that a tax office unit had received a report from a whistleblower, which the security department is currently examining.

It added a NAV employee had reported a case of blackmail and slander to the police, which forwarded this information to the employee’s bosses.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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