(MENAFN) A European Parliament member has lodged a police complaint against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, claiming that his devices were targeted with spyware in an attempted cyberattack.

Daniel Freund, a German representative from the Green Party, asserted that hackers tried to infiltrate his devices in 2024, adding that “Hungary is the only plausible actor in this scenario.” He stated on X that “if confirmed, this would be an outrageous attack on the European Parliament.”

Freund, together with the German nonprofit Society for Civil Rights (GFF), submitted a request to the prosecutor’s office in Krefeld and to cybercrime units in Cologne and Dusseldorf, urging them to investigate Orban and an unidentified accomplice.

According to reports, the complaint alleges that in May 2024, Freund received an email from someone pretending to be a Ukrainian student, which contained spyware intended to infect his parliamentary email system. “According to the EU Parliament’s IT experts, the Hungarian government could be behind the eavesdropping on me,” Freund said.

A vocal critic of Hungary’s ruling conservatives, Freund has frequently accused Orban of weakening democratic institutions, silencing dissent, and fostering corruption.

Orban, in response, has long argued that “the bureaucrats in Brussels” are bent on promoting war and undermining Hungary’s national independence.

Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs has repeatedly clashed with Freund on X, where he has labeled the lawmaker a “clown” and a “madman.”

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