Gábor Iványi on Thursday, March 28, at 9:00 a.m., he received a summons from the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office as a suspect. No information was provided regarding the details of the suspicion, he writes announcementin the Hungarian Evangelical Sisterhood (MET). In a statement, Iványi’s church says that during the week ten more senior colleagues were summoned as witnesses by the Central Investigation Department of the Directorate General of Crime of the NAV, and another colleague is being investigated by the tax inspectorate.
The Curia recently approved the motion of the Prosecutor’s Office and revoked MET’s registered church status. We filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court, but no decision has been made yet. The series of coordinated official investigations and the 13 years of discriminatory government measures raise the suspicion of church persecution. The MET fights with all possible means to operate and maintain its institutions, and strives to negotiate and reach an agreement with the relevant state institutions, writes the MET.
The economic director of Gábor Iványi’s church was previously taken away in handcuffs by the NAV
Last week, the Gyula Court lifted the arrest of István Ónodi, the pastor of the Hungarian Evangelical Brotherhood, reports the People’s word. The economic director of the association led by Gábor Iványi was taken away in handcuffs by the employees of the National Tax and Customs Office on February 20th. Based on the information released by the prosecutor’s office the next day, the man was suspected of the crime of budget fraud causing a particularly significant financial loss.
As we reported, Ónodi was not allowed to make phone calls during and following the procedure, his device was taken away, and no official documents were left regarding the search or the purpose of the procedure. When he wanted to know what the charges once morest him were, the detectives replied that there were no charges and that an investigation was underway. Later, for the wife, this was supplemented by the fact that the proceedings were being conducted due to “well-founded suspicions of an economic crime”.
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Gábor Iványi’s statement also mentions that the raid by the NAV comes one day before the church’s regular annual national assembly (synod) and almost exactly two years to the day following (on February 21, 2022) the NAV armed forces unexpectedly invaded the church headquarters and economic office. At that time, all data carriers and official documents were confiscated indiscriminately, but no information regarding the procedure has been given since then. The personal and other materials and computers that were taken were not returned.
In mid-February 2022, the NAV came out and conducted a house search at Oltalom’s Dankó utca headquarters, suspecting budget fraud.
(In our featured image: pastor Gábort Iványi. Photo: Oltalom Karitatív Egyesület Facebook page)
