Hungary: Regulators probe into M4 highway builders

The government’s review of the construction of a section of the M4 motorway, based on the European Commission’s suspicion of cartel activity, will wind up at the end of April, deputy state secretary for development policy communications Nándor Csepreghy said. The internal review was ordered by Cabinet Chief János Lázár on March 26, and construction on the stretch was halted simultaneously.

Csepreghy said earlier that the government does not agree with the EC’s suspicion and “final judgment will not take place” unless the suspicion is substantiated. The government wants a full-scale investigation of the suspicion, as public monies are involved, he added. Csepreghy said that the government was not shelving its plans to make all of Hungary’s biggest cities and county seats accessible via primary roads. The stretch of the M4 bypassing Szolnok, a county seat, is to be part of a motorway that runs from the capital across eastern Hungary to Oradea, in Romania.

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