匈牙利警方已将前央行行长乔治·马托尔奇拘留。该国总理周三宣布了这一消息。
Hungarian police have taken former Central Bank governor György Matolcsy into custody. The country's prime minister announced the development of Wednesday.
贾斯汀·斯派克 布达佩斯，匈牙利——匈牙利警方周三逮捕了该国前央行行长，这是新政府追究维克托·欧尔班执政期间涉嫌财务违规行为的重要举措，欧尔班政府长期以来被指控存在广泛腐败。
JUSTIN SPIKE BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian police arrested the country’s former Central Bank governor on Wednesday, a significant step in the new government’s pursuit of suspected financial abuses during the rein of Viktor Orbán whose government has been accused of widespread corruption.
总理彼得·马贾尔在脸书的一篇帖子中表示，前行长乔治·马托尔奇（曾任财政部长）已被拘留，但未提供更多细节。
Prime Minister Péter Magyar wrote in a post on Facebook that the former governor, György Matolcsy, who had also served as finance minister, was in custody, without providing further details.
自今年早些时候上任以来，马贾尔政府一直将调查欧尔班时期官员涉嫌的财务违规行为列为优先事项。
Since taking office earlier this year, Magyar’s government has prioritized investigating suspected financial abuses committed by Orbán-era officials.
此次逮捕发生在匈牙利中央检察官办公室当天早些时候发表声明之后，声明称正在“开展协调调查行动”，涉及与央行相关的刑事挪用公款调查中的多个地点。声明未点名马托尔奇，但表示案件的更多细节将于稍后公布。
The arrest followed a statement from Hungary’s Central Prosecutor’s Office earlier in the day, saying it was “carrying out coordinated investigative actions” in several locations in connection with a Central Bank-related investigation into criminal misappropriation of funds. It did not mention Matolcsy by name but said more details about the case would come later.
马托尔奇从2013年至2025年领导匈牙利央行，此前于2010年至2013年担任欧尔班的经济部长。他长期是欧尔班最亲密的经济盟友之一，并一直否认任何不法行为。
Matolcsy led Hungary’s central bank from 2013 to 2025, after serving as Orbán’s minister of economy from 2010 to 2013. He was long one of Orbán’s closest economic allies, and has denied any wrongdoing.
马托尔奇的律师帕尔·巴特基对匈牙利新闻媒体Telex表示，前行长因涉嫌造成重大财务损失的经济欺诈以及使用伪造的私人文件而被拘留。
Matolcsy’s lawyer, Pál Bátki, told Hungarian news outlet Telex that the former governor was detained on suspicion of economic fraud that caused significant financial damage and using a forged private document.
马托尔奇担任央行行长的大部分任期都陷入了腐败指控，指控与央行设立基金会并向其注入数百亿福林（相当于数亿美元）公有资金有关。
Much of Matolcsy’s tenure as head of the central bank was mired in accusations of corruption related to the bank’s establishment of foundations that it endowed with hundreds of billions of forints — equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars — in public funds.
上个月，有人以马托尔奇（Matolcsy）在担任州长期间涉嫌贪污、玩忽职守、欺诈及滥用职权为由提起了刑事诉讼。这起诉讼是在中央银行对过去的房地产投资进行审计后提出的；审计发现这些房地产是以虚高的价格购买的，给银行造成了重大财务损失。
A criminal complaint was filed last month on suspicion of embezzlement, negligence, fraud, and abuse of office while Matolcsy was governor. The complaint came after the central bank audited past real estate investments that it found to have been purchased for inflated prices, causing significant financial damage to the bank.
目前尚不清楚马托尔奇的被捕是否与这些房地产交易有关，还是与银行基金会的资金使用问题有关。
It was unclear whether Matolcsy’s detention was related to the real estate purchases or the endowments to the bank’s foundations.
周二，马加尔（Magyar）在接受美联社独家采访时明确表示：“前任政府的某些成员以及与他们有关系的寡头、商人和家族成员犯下了严重的罪行，主要是腐败行为，这些犯罪行为既使用了国家资金，也使用了欧盟提供的资金。”他的政府在7月份成立了“国家资产追回与保护办公室”（National Asset Recovery and Protection Office），该机构拥有调查和起诉的权力，专门负责处理公共资金被滥用的案件。
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Magyar said it was clear that “certain members of the previous government as well as oligarchs, businessmen and family members connected to them committed serious crimes, typically corruption crimes, both with national funding and EU funding.”His administration in July launched the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office, which holds investigative and prosecutorial powers to pursue cases of misused public funds.
马加尔将这个机构称为“超级权威机构”，它能够调动警方、检察官和国家税务部门的资源，从而“无需花费多年时间就能侦破复杂的腐败案件”。
Magyar called the office a “superauthority” that can enlist police, prosecutors and the national tax authority “so that it doesn’t take years to uncover a complicated corruption case.”