The MNB Did Not Issue the Requested Contracts, Transparency Turns to the NAIH
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The civil society organization submitted a public interest data request, but the Hungarian National Bank did not release the requested data.
Transparency requested the National Bank's contracts worth over 5 million forints. The MNB did not respond, saying it was not a budgetary body. This trick was also tried when Matolcsy's Pallas Athene foundations were founded, but the Constitutional Court ruled that the MNB was managing public funds.
Transparency International Hungary has appealed to the National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority after the Hungarian National Bank refused to release details of contracts exceeding five million forints concluded since January 2025. The central bank, led by Mihály Varga, argues that it is not a budgetary body and is therefore not subject to a data provision obligation. However, according to the anti-corruption NGO, this contra…
Transparency International wanted to know details about the MNB's contracts, but the central bank claims that this part of the law does not apply to them.
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