and yet they were quite happy to sell you a passport for the right fee.
It's not much of a secret that the whole thing was aimed to give dodgy Russians an easy way into the EU.
And I'm pretty sure that the program was discontinued for precisely the reason that these individuals carried on with organized criminal activity in Hungary.
Knowing Fidesz, it might be that the programme achieved its aims (passports for dodgy Russians connected to Fidesz) and so could be safely closed.