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OECD calls off antibribery mission to Hungary in unprecedented move

Institutions in the West have long warned of alarming levels of corruption in Hungary [File: Denes Erdos/AP Photo]

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has cancelled a mission to Hungary to discuss antibribery measures, it says, citing the government’s failure to act on its previous recommendations.

There was no immediate response from the Hungarian government on Tuesday after what the OECD said in a statement was the first time such a high-level mission has been called off.

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