Orbán’s spies were hunting me, says Hungarian journalist accused of espionage (www.politico.eu)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 00:58
https://lemmy.world/post/44883641

Hungary’s foreign intelligence services monitored private conversations of the investigative reporter Szabolcs Panyi, he alleged Friday in an interview with POLITICO after being accused of espionage.

Panyi, who has reported for years on Russian influence in Hungary, said he was warned by sources within the government that his conversations with contacts had been intercepted and passed to the Hungarian Information Office, later to be used by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government in an effort to discredit him.

The alleged campaign began in the middle of 2025 and became “more aggressive” after Direkt36, a nonprofit investigative journalism center in Hungary that Panyi writes for, published an article last year about a Hungarian intelligence operative attempting to recruit officials working for the European Commission in Brussels.

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