# Former Hungarian foreign minister denies helping BYD break Hungarian law

https://mins.news/en/item/86523

- TASS, 2026-10-05 13:47 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2197737

> Former Hungarian Foreign and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto denied facilitating government agreements with China’s BYD in breach of Hungarian law. At a closed national security committee hearing, he said support for BYD’s electric-vehicle plant in Szeged followed the standard framework for investments of its scale and that he attended voluntarily.