Infamous Hungarian criminal suspected of paying for declaration of insanity

The Budapest Investigative Prosecutors' Office carried out house searches at the homes of convicted entrepreneur Péter Tasnádi, his lawyer József B. and legal psychiatric expert Katalin G., on suspicion of bribery Wednesday.

Prosecutors suspect that in 2006, Tasnádi paid Ft 3 million (€13,000) to the legal expert for a medical opinion that he was suffering from a mental illness which he needed to reduce his sentence.

Tasnádi was originally sentenced to four and a half years for planning to have his former partner and her new husband murdered, embezzlement and other crimes, but in the summer of 2007, his sentence was reduced to two and a half years as a result of the expert testimony, writes index.hu, based on a report by Független Hírügynökség. During investigations into the validity of this testimony, a letter by Tasnádi was uncovered, in which he asked his friends for Ft 3 million, which was used to pay for the false opinion.

During the house searches, more documents and data storage devices were seized. It is suspected that Tasnádi ordered his lawyer to agree with the legal expert to give a favorable opinion in exchange for money.

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