Diplomatic spat after Hungary gives asylum to politician suspected of corruption

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, speaks with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk as they pose for a group photo during an Nuclear Energy Summit at the Expo in Brussels (Virginia Mayo/AP)

Hungary has given political asylum to a Polish opposition politician who is wanted on suspicions of corruption, triggering a diplomatic spat.

Poland’s government decried Hungary’s decision as a “hostile act”, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he was dismayed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s decision to shelter a man being sought on suspicions of defrauding the state out of millions of zlotys.