Friends of Orban
Former Diplomat Opens Wine Bar Despite Russian Visa Mill Scandal
A former Hungarian diplomat accused of running a ‘visa mill’ in Moscow is living free in Hungary. He and his...
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Companies connected to Lőrinc Mészáros won public tenders worth 280 million euros in July, either alone or as members of consortiums
Lőrinc Mészáros is undoubtedly the most successful businessman in Hungary: he became the second richest men in the country within...
Friends of Orban
The next generation of pro-Orban oligarchs: the Mészáros kids are making 3300 euros a day winning public tenders
Lőrinc Mészáros has become a legendary figure of Hungarian political life. The former mayor of Viktor Orban’s home village became...
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Drone video: This is how the Mészáros empire looks from above
According to official estimates and popular lists compiled by magazines, Lőrinc Mészáros is still only the second richest man in...
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State-owned Hungarian energy group gave €1,7 million to NGO favored by Orban to ‘improve public thinking’
The state-owned Hungarian energy giant, MVM donated a huge sum to an NGO favored by the prime minister in...
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Right-Wing Hungarian Media Moves Into the Balkans
Hungarians with links to the country’s pro-government media have embarked on a mass buy-up of news outlets in Macedonia, part...
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Tobacco Barons in Hungary: loophole allows businessmen to reap the profits of close to a hundred tobacco shops
The Orban government passed a law in 2012 about tobacco sales: only people licensed by the state are allowed to...
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This is what corruption looks like: drone videos of 23 towns with Elios lamps
One of the biggest political scandals of the past few months was the so-called Elios scandal in Hungary. OLAF, the...
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OLAF’s letters to Hungarian towns reveal details of fraudulent street light modernization projects
News broke in January that the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) finished a two-year investigation into EU-funded street light modernization programs...
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The EU funded 84 percent of the public procurement tenders won by Elios
Even though the name of Elios Zrt. and its former co-owner, István Tiborcz dominated the news in Hungary in the...