The idea that the documents related to voice recordings of former justice minister Judit Varga’s private conversation published by her former husband, Péter Magyar, the leader of the Respect and Freedom (Tisza) party, had been redacted was „outrageous and surreal” the Prosecution Investigation Office’s chief, Pál Fürcht, said. Further, he said the recorded conversation contained factual errors excluding the possibility that the information had come from the prosecution’s documents or from a person familiar with those documents. The documents themselves were stored in multiple copies at multiple locations, including with the defence and the suspects themselves, making redaction impossible, he said. The investigation into those allegations was terminated for lack of suspicion that a crime had been committed, he said.
Katalin Kovács, the spokeswoman of the prosecutor’s office, said investigators heard nine witnesses and reviewed some 17,000 pages of documents. Due to a lack of evidence during the investigation, it could not be clarified whether Volner had received information about the ongoing investigation against him, which is why the investigative prosecutor’s office terminated the investigation. „The prosecutor’s office has taken action in all suspicious cases, taken those responsible to court and ensured that a criminal procedure was conducted. All allegations regarding the voice recording were proven to be unequivocally false,” Kovacs said. The decision is not binding, she added.