00:00Hungary's parliament has voted to lift immunity on Prime Minister Peter Magyar,
00:05along with two former ministers from Viktor Orban's government.
00:08The move clears the way for criminal investigations,
00:11including corruption probes into the former ministers,
00:14just months after Magyar's Tezapati ended Orban's 16-year rule.
00:20Magyar had himself called for his immunity to be lifted.
00:25Prosecutors are investigating an incident in 2024,
00:28in which Magyar allegedly took a mobile phone from a man who was filming him at a nightclub
00:33and threw it into a river.
00:35Magyar denies committing a crime and has called the case politically motivated.
00:40The more serious cases involve two former ministers during Orban's time in power
00:46who are being investigated over alleged bribery and misuse of public funds.
00:51The cases are the first corruption investigations
00:54targeting senior figures from Orban's 16 years in power.
00:58They come just months after Magyar's Tezapati swept to power,
01:03promising to investigate alleged corruption and abuses of power under the previous government.
