Károly Szita

Károly Szita, Kaposvár's long-serving Fidesz mayor, was found by a 2019 Átlátszó investigation to have declared roughly ten times more income from MTVA (Hungary's public-media operator) on his official wealth declaration for 2015–2016 than MTVA's own published figures showed for him. In June 2023, Átlátszó reported that Kaposvár's city hall purchased a luxury-specification (leather-seat, four-wheel-drive) Škoda Superb official car for a net HUF 18 million (about HUF 23 million including VAT), reporting that the car "will presumably belong to Mayor Károly Szita, who currently also uses a Superb" — at a time when social-aid organizations said need was rising among the population while charitable donations were falling. During his tenure, several major municipal projects in Kaposvár, including a biomass heating plant and a transportation center, ran significantly over budget and behind schedule.