Hungary’s government denied insider trading after opposition members questioned a foreign ministry decision to withdraw state funds from a brokerage that filed for bankruptcy a few days later.<br /><br />The National Bank of Hungary suspended the licence of brokerage Quaestor on March 10, saying it may have sold more bonds than permitted under its issuance programme.<br /><br />The opposition Socialists have called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban to quit. Party leader Jozsef Tarsoly told euronews: “The government has withdrawn the money of its allies and ministries and let the people down [...] Mr Orban has lost his entitlement to be the prime minister of Hungary, so he should resign.”<br /><br />The Socalists urged the foreign ministry to clarify whether it had any insider information about Quaestor’s finances.<br /><br />“The foreign ministry and its institutions had no unlawful information whatsoever,” it said on the government’s website.<br /><br />Quaestor was the third Hungarian brokerage to run into financial trouble within wee
