Hungary seizes $19.5m in cash found buried in forests amid graft inquiry

Anti-corruption agency carried out searches as part of investigation into Orbán-era minister accused of taking bribes

Hungary’s anti-corruption agency said on Friday it had seized cash worth $19.5m (£14.8m) buried in forests and hidden elsewhere while investigating an ex-minister of nationalist former leader Viktor Orbán.

Miklós Seszták, Hungary’s minister of national development between 2014 and 2018, is accused of taking bribes in a scheme involving the state transport company, purchasing secondhand buses at inflated prices.