Csaba Tóth

Csaba János Tóth (born 22 April 1960) is a Hungarian engineer, entrepreneur and retired politician, a former member of the National Assembly. He became MP via the Hungarian Socialist Party's Budapest Regional List at first, serving in this capacity between 2010 and 2014. He represented Zugló (Budapest Constituency VIII) from 2014 to 2022.

His name has come to light in a number of suspected corruption and illegal cases over the years.

Early life Csaba János Tóth was born in Zalaegerszeg in 1960. He earned a degree of mechanical engineer at the Technical University of Heavy Industry (present-day University of Miskolc) in 1983. Thereafter, he obtained a second degree in technical commercial engineering from the University of Agricultural Sciences (present-day part of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences) in 1986.

Political career Vas County Csaba Tóth joined the Vas County branch of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) in 2002. Soon, he was installed as deputy president of the county branch in 2003. Shortly after his arrival, a lot of new members joined the party’s local organizations in Vas County.

After the president of the local Roma minority self-government claimed that the Tóth had artificially increased their membership – the party organization had swelled from forty to five hundred in one night – and Tóth and his colleagues paid for their admissions, in order to strengthen the county branch on national level and its voting share within the party's national electoral board. An ethics investigation was initiated against Tóth, at the end of which the county board expelled him from the party. But this was reviewed by the MSZP's National Ethics Committee six months later.

He was a member of the Mozaik Klub think-tank within the party, along with, among others, Gergely Bárándy, Ágnes Vadai, and Miklós Hagyó.

At the time, police suspected him of involvement in the forgery of private documents, alongside Bálint Szabó and János Zuschlag, involving the establishments of fictitious branches of the youth party organization Young Left – Young Socialists (Fibisz) in Vas County. According to press reports, Tóth had personal conflicts with the local MSZP strongman György Ipkovich. Momentum leader András Fekete-Győr expressed his rejection of the candidacies of some MSZP politicians in the primary, such as Attila Mesterházy and Csaba Tóth. Tóth called the corruption cases as unfounded accusations and, emphasized was always acquitted by the courts. During a debate between Tóth and Hadházy in September 2021, the latter presented that Tóth bought an abandoned factory in Budafok-Tétény at a low price, which is not included in his declaration of assets, for "money laundering or concealment of property". On 25 September 2021, the Jobbik, the DK and Gergely Karácsony withdrew their support for Tóth's candidacy. Amidst the first round if the opposition primary, Tóth withdrew his candidacy on 27 September 2021. Tóth cited the unfair attacks against him, but it is presumable that stepped back due to the leaked data which show Hadházy's crushing victory against him. As a result, Ákos Hadházy became the joint opposition candidate and subsequently won Zugló constituency in the 2022 parliamentary election. The Prosecutor General's Office launched an investigation on the parking scandal case in Zugló in March 2022. The National Assembly has suspended Tóth's immunity and the Central Prosecutor's Office interrogated Tóth as suspect in corruption offenses. He is suspected of accepting a bribe of HUF 280 million.