BUDAPEST, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Hungary's Central Statistics
Office (KSH) has launched a probe into a violation of the
embargo on the country's December retail sales data published
earlier on Monday, it said in an emailed statement.
The KSH said that local business portal Portfolio published
a story on Saturday in which they said an economic research
institute had sent them an analysis with details of the retail
data that were meant to be published only on Monday morning.
Portfolio did not publish the analysis.
"The Central Statistics Office (KSH) has learned about a
violation of the embargoed access to official statistical data
and is launching an investigation, as well as preventive steps
to avoid any similar cases," the KSH said in its statement.
The KSH said that relevant state officials have access to
strictly embargoed economic data the day before their
publication, at 1600 GMT.
"During the practice of embargoed access to data, which goes
back for several decades, it has never happened that an embargo
would have been breached. The KSH investigates the serious
breach of the embargo, and will take the necessary steps," the
Office added.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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