RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  5 April 2000 
HUNGARIAN CABINET COMPLAINS OF BBC DISTORTION. The
government's National Image Center has sent letter to the
board of the BBC World Television a complaining about the
"distorted" picture of Hungary presented in a recent BBC
documentary, the daily "Nepszabadsag" reports on 5 April. The
letter says it is "regrettable" that the 17 March
documentary, on the spread of global organized crime was
based on errors. The film charged that the professional
standards, moral levels. and salaries of Hungarian police are
low and claimed that there is a "tidal wave" of corruption
and organized crime in Hungary. The letter said the film was
based on events that took place from 1994-1997 but were
presented as current. And it concluded that the least
"excusable error " was that Hungary's 1999 budget was put at
$400 million, while the correct figure is $14.6 billion. MSZ
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