György Szilvásy (born April 29, 1958, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician, a former minister in the cabinet of Ferenc Gyurcsány supervising the secret service.
He obtained an economic degree in the academic specialization of international relations in 1982 from Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem (today Corvinus University).
Ferenc Gyurcsány said on Facebook earlier on that day that he had been informed by Szilvásy’s family that the former minister is suspected of criminal activities against the state.
[2] On 5 July 2013, a court in Debrecen sentenced in a non-final ruling Szilvásy and Galambos to two years and ten months in prison for espionage.
The trial was held in full secrecy and the files of the case have been classified until 2040 because, as the prosecution put it, “several state secrets have emerged during the lawsuit”.
Máté Kocsis called Szilvásy a close associate of Gyurcsány, ex-premier Gordon Bajnai and Mesterhazy, whom he co-blamed for “destroying the country both economically and morally”.