Opposition-linked reporter Szabolcs Panyi played a key role in wiretapping Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
Hungarian Justice Minister Bence Tuzson has filed a complaint against opposition journalist Szabolcs Panyi, after Panyi admitted to helping a foreign intelligence agency wiretap Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto ahead of next month’s crucial elections in the country.
News of the complaint was announced on Thursday by Gergely Gulyas, the government minister in charge of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office.
“In Hungary, the news today is mostly about spies,” Sulyas told reporters. “The first of these is Szabolcs Panyi, who was found to have been spying against his own country in collaboration with a foreign state.”
Panyi runs the Hungarian branch of Vsquare, a media outlet financed by the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and two EU-backed journalism funds. Last week, he admitted in a leaked audio recording that he passed Szijjarto’s phone number to “a state organ of an EU country,” whose agents then extracted “information about who that number spoke to, and they see who is calling that number or who that number is calling.”
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