A Russian spy in the ranks of Jobbik in the European Parliament

(BRUSSELS2) The case caused a stir in Budapest. An MEP from the far-right Jobbik party is clearly suspected of being an intelligence agent for the Russians, not in the past but still today. Bela Kovacs previously sat on the ITRE Committee (Industry, Research and Energy) and on the parliamentary cooperation delegations with the former republics of the USSR (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) and Mongolia, as well as on the EU-Russia Committee. He was re-elected in the last European elections, appearing in third place.

He is also the Vice-President and Treasurer of the European Alliance of National Movements, the alliance of far-right movements of which Bruno Gollnish, member of the French National Front, is President. The Hungarian chief prosecutor has sent a letter to the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, to request the lifting of the immunity of Kovacs who has just been re-elected to the European Parliament.

The lifting of immunity should however take a few weeks, the time for the parliamentary committees to be set up and for the plenary to decide. (NGV)