Roland Mengyi

Roland Mengyi, a former Fidesz MP and chairman of the Békés County Assembly, was sentenced to four years in prison for attempted budget fraud committed in a criminal conspiracy causing especially significant financial damage. Mengyi's name also surfaced in a separate matter: a 2018 NAV (tax authority) investigation into Public Sector Kft., a company providing services to the municipalities of Cece and Lajoskomárom in which Mengyi was also involved, found the company had "sold the exact same heart and circulatory patient club methodology to both municipalities," billing HUF 198,000 plus VAT per location and then invoicing both municipalities nearly identical amounts of HUF 2,242,500 gross for operational guidelines; NAV ultimately closed that investigation on the grounds that "due to the passage of time, it is now impossible to determine how many hours were actually spent" on the work, meaning that matter never resulted in accountability. Mengyi entered the Kecskemét penitentiary in January 2020 and was released in December 2021 after serving roughly 22 months, benefiting from good-behavior sentence reductions and reintegration custody; asked about the circumstances of his release, he said only: "We're not on such friendly terms [with you] that I would comment on this."