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Sándor Pintér
Official portrait, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary
In office 18 May 2018 – 24 May 2022Serving with Zsolt Semjén and Mihály Varga
Prime Minister	Viktor Orbán
Minister of Interior
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2010
Prime Minister	Viktor Orbán
Preceded by	Zoltán Varga (Minister of Local Government)
In office 8 July 1998 – 27 May 2002
Prime Minister	Viktor Orbán
Preceded by	Gábor Kuncze
Succeeded by	Mónika Lamperth
Personal details
Born	(1948-07-03) 3 July 1948 (age 76) Budapest, Hungary
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Ildikó Pintérné Eötvös
Children	3
Profession	politician, police officer

Sándor Pintér (born 3 July 1948) is a Hungarian politician and former top police officer. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1998 to 2002 and since 2010, in Viktor Orbán's cabinets.

Biography

Pintér was born and raised in Budapest. He graduated from the Police Officer College (Hungarian: Rendőrtiszti Főiskola) at Budapest in 1978. He worked in the criminal-investigation divisions of the national, Budapest and Pest County Police Departments between 1978 and 1991. He received degree at Law and Political Sciences in Eötvös Loránd University in 1986 aged 38.

Before his entry into the political arena after retirement, he worked as a police officer. After entering the police service in 1972 and rising through the ranks, he reached top positions in the Hungarian police, such as Chief of the Budapest police in 1991, and then Chief of the National Police between 1991 and 1996.

Political career

He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) before the transition to democracy in Hungary (1990).

Allegedly, between 1993 and 1996, Dietmar Clodo gave large sums of money from Semion Mogilevich to numerous Hungarian politicians including Pinter in 1996/1997.

Sándor Pintér served as Minister of the Interior in the first cabinet of Viktor Orbán from 1998 to 2002. He worked as businessman between two periods as Minister of the Interior, operating security, economic-consultation and travel companies.

He was appointed Minister of the Interior again in 2010. His most prominent tasks are the suppression of the delinquency and the restoration of the police's efficiency. The secret services' single part was also at his disposal until 2022. Pintér said that they had reviewed the changes done at the police in 2010, and also had set the tasks to be accomplished during the year of 2011 in order to improve the police work to achieve a better state of public order and security in the country. As Minister of the Interior, he was superior of the Constitution Protection Office Director General, domestic criminal-investigative and counterintelligence agency, Counter Terrorism Centre Director General, special weapons and tactics, hostage rescue agency, National Protective Service Director General, organization completing tasks such as: crime prevention and detection, lifestyle monitoring, integrity testing and Special Service for National Security Director General, agency – provider of the technical background needed to clandestine collection of information.

Pintér served as interior minister in the second, third, fourth and fifth Orbán governments. After the 2022 parliamentary election, secret services transferred to the portfolio of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office headed by Antal Rogán, while the Ministry of the Interior headed by Sándor Pintér received the health and education portfolio.

Personal life

He is married. His wife is Ildikó Pintérné Eötvös and has three daughters, Hajnalka, Csillag and Ildikó.

Notes

1. During the Cold War, Dietmar Clodo ("bomb maker"), who was an international bomb making terrorist using the "Moscow mixture" or "Ryazan Sugar" which is TNT plus RDX with the Red Army Faction (RAF) acting on behalf of the Kremlin's interests and an associate of Carlos the Jackal, stated that, during the 1980s, he traveled to Dresden often to meet his handler Vladimir Putin. According to Clodo, Clodo gave large sums of money from Semion Mogilevich to Viktor Orban during the 1990s.

References

1. Волчек, Дмитрий (Volchek, Dmitry) (July 25, 2018). "Гексогеновые годы. Владимир Путин во главе ФСБ" [The hexogen years. Vladimir Putin at the head of the FSB]. Радио Свобода (Radio Svoboda) (in Russian). Retrieved July 13, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Clodo, Dr. Dietmar; Volkova, Tatiana (February 24, 2013). ""Выбранные места из переписки с друзьями». (Продолжение) От кого: "Dr. Dietmar Clodo" Кому: Volkova Tatiana Тема: Dolmatov case" ["Selected passages from correspondence with friends." (Continuation) From: " Dr. Dietmar Clodo " To: Volkova Tatiana Theme: Dolmatov case]. Правосудия.Нет: Блог Татьяна Волкова (in Russian). Archived from on March 16, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2021. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
3. Волчек, Дмитрий (Volchek, Dmitry) (March 28, 2020). "Как закалялась шваль. КГБ, измайловская братва и путинизм" [How the trash was tempered. The KGB, the Izmailovskaya gang and Putinism]. Радио Свобода (Radio Svoboda) (in Russian). Retrieved July 13, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. "Háromszor tárgyalt Pintérrel, aki csalásra akarta rávenni - állítja a "bombagyáros". Nem egyszer, hanem háromszor ült le tárgyalni Pintér Sándor jelenlegi belügyminiszter Dietmar Clodóval a kilencvenes évek második felében - állítja az egykori "bombagyáros", aki elmondta: Pintérék csalásra akarták rávenni egy - biztonsági üvegek vásárlásáról szóló - kereskedelmi ügyletben, amely végül meghiúsult" [He negotiated three times with Pintér, who wanted to get him to cheat, says the "bomb maker". He sat down not once but three times to negotiate with Sándor Pintér, the current interior minister, with Dietmar Clodo in the second half of the 1990s, says the former "bomb maker", who said]. Népszabadság (nol.hu) (in Hungarian). September 28, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
5. "Orbán Viktor, a német bombagyáros és az orosz maffiafőnök – változatok egy kompromatra" [Viktor Orbán, the German bomb maker and the Russian mafia chief - versions for a compromise]. Átlátszó.hu (atlatszo.hu) (in Hungarian). February 14, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
6. ^ Кириленко, Анастасия (Kirilenko, Anastasia) (February 2, 2017). "Чемодан от солнцевских: у Путина есть видеокомпромат на лидера Венгрии?" [Suitcase from Solntsevskaya gang: Putin has video-compromising material on the leader of Hungary?]. The Insider (in Russian). Retrieved July 13, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. "Путин и «братва». Как русская мафия шла к успеху" [Putin and the "bratva". How the Russian mafia went to success]. CRiME (crime-ua.com) (in Russian). October 16, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
8. tbca (October 17, 2017). "Affidavit by Dietmar Clodo on Orban's corruption by the Solntsevo Gang". Transborder Corruption Archive (tbcarchives.org) (in German). Retrieved July 13, 2021. Translation is in English.
9. "Jürgen Roth: Pintér Sándor titka" [Jürgen Roth: The secret of Sándor Pintér]. Átlátszó.hu (atlatszo.hu) (in Hungarian). February 13, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
10. "POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF SOME HUNGARIAN POLITICIANS?". hungarianspectrum.org. October 5, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
11. "TAG ARCHIVES: DIETMAR CLODO". hungarianspectrum.org. February 5, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
12. Roth 2016.
13. "Pintér Sándor: Nem kívánok gyógyítani, és nem kívánok a gyógyító munkában közvetlenül részt venni" (in Hungarian). Telex.hu. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
14. Magyar Narancs - Jenő Böszörményi - Őrzés, védés – Pintér Sándor cégeladásai

Roth, Jürgen (21 September 2016). Schmutzige Demokratie: Ausgehöhlt - Ausgenutzt - Ausgelöscht? [Dirty democracy: Hollowed - Exploited - Wiped Out?] (in German). Salzburg: Ecowin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7110-0094-1. Archived from the original on 2017-10-06.

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