“The major cases of corruption indicated to Hungary by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) concern the previous, liberal and left-wing governments”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.

According to the Government Spokesperson, the number of cases suspected of involving corruption indicated by OLAF is not outstanding in European comparison, and in fact falls short of the European average.

“The Hungarian Government has done everything possible to ensure that the policy of zero tolerance it declared with regard to corruption in 2010 achieves the best possible results”, he stressed.

“In 2012, the Government still had to struggle with the fact that only 70 percent of EU funding had been successfully distributed, but now practically all requests for tenders have already been published”, Mr. Kovács also stated.

(MTI)