394 result(s) for fraud
Tax Office Clamps Down On 3-Billion - Forint Vat Fraud Ring
- 20 May 2015 9:00 AM
- business
The tax office NAV has clamped down on a crime organisation suspected of a 3 billion forint (EUR 9.8m) fraud from reclaiming valueadded- tax (VAT) based in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, NAV’s local office said. The investigation was closed on May 11 after a full year of gathering evidence, head of NAV’s regional office Tibor Lengyel said.
Hungarian NGOs Launch Joint Whistleblower Protection Program
- 29 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Three Hungarian NGOs signed a cooperation agreement to jointly offer protection and support to Hungarian whistleblowers. The service, known as BeVéd (“to protect”), will help provide whistleblowers with legal support, psychological assistance and media support.
Hungary's PM: 2016 Budget Planning Means “Everyone Can Move Forward”
- 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM
- business
Thanks to the government’s advance planning for the 2016 budget “everyone can move forward,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular Friday morning interview with public radio. The goal is to push the jobless rate down to around 3% by 2018- 2019, which in effect would mean full employment. Tax cuts are a means to stimulate employment and they are also tantamount to a pay rise, he added.
Hungarian Party LMP Presses Ministry To Release List Of Diplomatic Passports
- 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition LMP party is filing a lawsuit in a bid to force the foreign ministry to reveal a list of diplomatic passport-holders over the past five years. Bernadett Szél, LMP’s coleader, noted in a statement on Friday that Csaba Tarsoly, the owner of bankrupted brokerage firm Quaestor now under arrest on suspicion of fraud, had made several trips around the world using a diplomatic passport ...
EU, Hungary Economy Growing, Says Varga
- 27 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary has successfully completed structural transformations in its jobs market and tax system, Economy Minister Mihály Varga said after a meeting of Ecofin in Riga. Varga said European Union ministers had reviewed economic progress in the bloc and of individual member states.
Hungary Allocates Ft 1.8bn To Repay EU Funds
- 22 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
The government is providing Ft 1.8 billion to 140 local authorities who have been ordered to repay EU funds after the European anti-fraud office OLAF found that the funds had been used illegally. The smallest bailout is Ft 4.2 million and the largest Ft 30 million, mostly concerning construction of playgrounds in 2008-09.
Xpat Opinion: Leaders Avoid Losses, But May Pay At The Polls
- 15 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
By Tom Popper, Managing Editor, Budapest Business Journal: When Quaestor investment house went bust, so did a lot of hard−working people. The government and Győr’s football team were unscathed, but many ordinary citizens were not.
Hungarian Leftist Parties To Stage Anti-Govt Demo
- 10 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
Parties of the leftist opposition will hold a demonstration of “victims” of the past five years of the Fidesz-led government in central Budapest on Saturday. Socialist board member Károly Beke said that the last government cycle had left in its wake “broken tobacconists, farmers stripped of their land and people deprived of their private pension savings, as well as stranded Quaestor investors”.
Hungary Near Top On The “Corrupt Countries” List
- 9 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
There are a variety of signs, some screaming to be notices, others barely visible that signal corruption could be present in a public procurement. Hungary came out near the top of a sample of countries that were showing signs of corruption, István János Tóth, co-founder and director of Corruption Research Center, Budapest (CRCB), tells business website portfolio.hu.
Tax Office Clamps Down On 3-Billion - Forint Vat Fraud Ring
- 20 May 2015 9:00 AM
- business
The tax office NAV has clamped down on a crime organisation suspected of a 3 billion forint (EUR 9.8m) fraud from reclaiming valueadded- tax (VAT) based in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, NAV’s local office said. The investigation was closed on May 11 after a full year of gathering evidence, head of NAV’s regional office Tibor Lengyel said.
Hungarian NGOs Launch Joint Whistleblower Protection Program
- 29 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Three Hungarian NGOs signed a cooperation agreement to jointly offer protection and support to Hungarian whistleblowers. The service, known as BeVéd (“to protect”), will help provide whistleblowers with legal support, psychological assistance and media support.
Hungary's PM: 2016 Budget Planning Means “Everyone Can Move Forward”
- 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM
- business
Thanks to the government’s advance planning for the 2016 budget “everyone can move forward,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular Friday morning interview with public radio. The goal is to push the jobless rate down to around 3% by 2018- 2019, which in effect would mean full employment. Tax cuts are a means to stimulate employment and they are also tantamount to a pay rise, he added.
Hungarian Party LMP Presses Ministry To Release List Of Diplomatic Passports
- 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition LMP party is filing a lawsuit in a bid to force the foreign ministry to reveal a list of diplomatic passport-holders over the past five years. Bernadett Szél, LMP’s coleader, noted in a statement on Friday that Csaba Tarsoly, the owner of bankrupted brokerage firm Quaestor now under arrest on suspicion of fraud, had made several trips around the world using a diplomatic passport ...
EU, Hungary Economy Growing, Says Varga
- 27 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary has successfully completed structural transformations in its jobs market and tax system, Economy Minister Mihály Varga said after a meeting of Ecofin in Riga. Varga said European Union ministers had reviewed economic progress in the bloc and of individual member states.
Hungary Allocates Ft 1.8bn To Repay EU Funds
- 22 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
The government is providing Ft 1.8 billion to 140 local authorities who have been ordered to repay EU funds after the European anti-fraud office OLAF found that the funds had been used illegally. The smallest bailout is Ft 4.2 million and the largest Ft 30 million, mostly concerning construction of playgrounds in 2008-09.
Xpat Opinion: Leaders Avoid Losses, But May Pay At The Polls
- 15 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
By Tom Popper, Managing Editor, Budapest Business Journal: When Quaestor investment house went bust, so did a lot of hard−working people. The government and Győr’s football team were unscathed, but many ordinary citizens were not.
Hungarian Leftist Parties To Stage Anti-Govt Demo
- 10 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
Parties of the leftist opposition will hold a demonstration of “victims” of the past five years of the Fidesz-led government in central Budapest on Saturday. Socialist board member Károly Beke said that the last government cycle had left in its wake “broken tobacconists, farmers stripped of their land and people deprived of their private pension savings, as well as stranded Quaestor investors”.
Hungary Near Top On The “Corrupt Countries” List
- 9 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- business
There are a variety of signs, some screaming to be notices, others barely visible that signal corruption could be present in a public procurement. Hungary came out near the top of a sample of countries that were showing signs of corruption, István János Tóth, co-founder and director of Corruption Research Center, Budapest (CRCB), tells business website portfolio.hu.