The European Commission reported progress on Thursday in the investigation launched over suspicions that Hungary had been spying on the decision-making process in the European Union for many years, and sources told AFP that the European Parliament would soon be informed of its results, LETA reported citing AFP.
"Progress has been made, and the Commission will inform Parliament after completing the administrative procedures," said European Commission representative Balazs Ujvari at a press conference in Brussels.
According to sources, the investigation is nearly complete, and its results will affect the fate of European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Oliver Varhelyi.
During the period under investigation, Varhelyi was Hungary's ambassador to the EU. There are suspicions that Budapest was recruiting informants in various EU institutions at that time.
Varhelyi's office has not yet provided comments.
The official investigation was launched last year after an international journalistic investigation revealed that Hungarian intelligence services had recruited informants in EU institutions from 2012 to 2018 and created a spy network.
Varhelyi denied knowing about this.
However, the current Prime Minister of Hungary, Peter Madjar, who worked in Brussels during that period, claims that Varhelyi "is not telling the whole truth."
"In the [Hungarian] representation to the EU in Brussels, everyone knew that intelligence agents were stationed there," Madjar wrote on Facebook last October.
As reported, in the parliamentary elections held on Sunday in Hungary, the party of then-Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Fidesz, suffered a crushing defeat, while the opposition conservative party Tisza, led by Madjar, achieved a confident victory.
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