Katalin ERDÉLYI

Maintenance period is over, transparency is gone: no more information about the passenger numbers and operating costs.

Following our story, Transparency International Hungary turned to the Integrity Authority, which now said that it had found serious irregularities in the investigation and had filed a criminal complaint for the crimes of budget fraud, restrictive agreement, and use of forged private documents.

Atlatszo has won a number of important cases and exposed the truth about how public money is used. Here are our most important findings from 2023.

The government-friendly think-thank, Antall József Knowledge Centre spent tens of million of taxpayers money for travel and accomodation for years.

Fidesz-affiliated think tanks will produce all kinds of research and studies for the Prime Minister's Office by the end of 2026.

The government says waiting lists will decrease, but experts say the opposite will happen. And some exempted will not be covered by the law.

The government bought the land in 2020 to build a port for container ships to help Hungarian firms' export activity, but the project has still not started.

The state-founded private organisation already has 26 properties in 5 neighbouring countries.

Orbán travelled with 3 ministers and staff of 35 people to meet Chancellor Karl Nehammer last July.

Origo is the record holder with 13 negative verdicts, while Pesti Srácok is in second place with 8 lost cases. Independent newspapers lost only 6 cases in total.

Now we can say legally that István Bács is related to the owner of the company that won the public tenders for the construction of the kindergartens.