László Boldvai

Boldvai became a founding member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in 1989. He served as chairman of its Nógrád County branch between 1989 and 1995. He was on the 61st place in the national list of the Socialist Party in the 1990 parliamentary election, but did not secure a mandate. He was elected to the national board in 1992.^[1] He was elected a Member of Parliament for Salgótarján during the 1994 parliamentary election. He was a vice chairman, then a simple member of the Budget and Finance Committee until 2014.^[2] He was appointed party treasurer in October 1994, replacing László Máté. He held the position until September 1998, when he was replaced by László Puch.^[1] He was re-elected MP for Salgótarján in the 1998 parliamentary election. He secured a parliamentary seat from his party's national list during the 2002 parliamentary election. He was a member of the Economic Committee from 2002 to 2003 and vice-chairman of the Audit Committee from 2003 to 2006.^[2] In 2003, he became chairman of the MSZP's Nógrád County branch again.

He was elected MP for Salgótarján again during the 2006 parliamentary election. He worked for the Budget, Finance and Audit Committee and its two sub-committees in that parliamentary term. He secured a mandate from the Nógrád County regional list of the MSZP in the 2010 parliamentary election. He worked for the Audit and Budget Committee (2010–2014), Youth, Social, Family and Housing Committee (2010–2014) and Consumer Protection Committee (2010).^[2] After the 2014 parliamentary election, he continued his work as a member of the General Assembly of Nógrád County. It was confirmed Boldvai was involved in managing the party's finances again by April 2016, preserving his political influence within MSZP.

Boldvai was involved in the so-called Tocsik corruption case in the 1990s, when he was accused of extortion and jobbery. Boldvai was sentenced to 10-month prison at first instance in 1999, but later was acquitted of the charges in 2003.^[3]

In November 2007, right-wing daily Magyar Nemzet reported, Boldvai began to build a 1050 square meters luxury villa in Salgótarján,^[4] which was completed by April 2009. Based on Boldvai's asset declarations over the years, the politician had no income outside his MP salary. Magyar Hírlap reported his wife used a BMW jeep and their elder son studied in Switzerland in the same time. Boldvai said before the Immunity Committee, he built the villa through savings, real estate sales and loans.^[5]

His wife, Csilla Konti was named in 2016 Panama Papers scandal; accordingly she owned an offshore company incorporated in Samoa with a bank account in Switzerland, which was opened in November 2012, and 80 million HUF was transferred there still that day. Investigative portal Direkt36 asked Boldvai his wife's offshore interests; initially he denied having any knowledge of her dealings.^[6] On 5 April 2016, Boldvai admitted to party chairman József Tóbiás, that the information about the offshore company was true and suspended his Socialist Party membership with immediate effect.^[7] However, Boldvai renewed his party membership in December 2016, without taking any party posts.^[8]