OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 23, 3 February 1997

HUNGARIAN DAILY PUBLISHES REPORT ON PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION
FINDINGS.
Tamas Deutsch, deputy of the opposition Young Democrats and chairman of
the parliamentary commission investigating the privatization scandal,
was furious when he learned the daily Nepszabadsag published a report on
1 February alleging the findings of the commission. Deutsch said the
daily's article contains a number of inaccuracies, and was probably
culled from several documents. The daily's analysis of an alleged
commission report assigns responsibility to several people at the
privatization agency but reveals little new evidence. Deutsch said the
aim of the leak was to divert attention from recent revelations that the
two coalition parties were implicated in the payments fiasco. -- Zsofia
Szilagyi

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