They sprayed anti-migrant slogan to Jobbik posters in the run-up of the 2018 campaign. Several people linked to the Foreign Ministry were in the group, Direkt36 revealed.
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A businessman known for yachting with Hungarian minister Péter Szijjártó was a member of a group of Fidesz activists destroying opposition’s posters
How did Szijjártó’s futsal player friend become a top businessman?
We have explored the business successes of Péter Szijjártó’s old colleague and teammate, and how hundreds of millions of forints of public money from the Foreign Ministry contributed to them.
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Áron Orbán promotes both diet-food and weapons. Meanwhile, pro-government businessmen are popping up around him
The company of the prime minister’s brother runs a shop of Norbert Schobert’s chain in Croatia. The gun shop he regularly advertises is building a shooting range on his land and has won an EU tender.
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How state funds help the miracle business of a top minister’s former wife
We have revealed where the money comes from for Cecília Rogán-Gaál’s tabloid’s publishing house
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Orbán government keeps silent about Russian residency bond owners – even as the EU prepares to end the practice
Fidesz MEPs did not vote for the revision of the visas already issued. Several beneficiaries of Putin’s regime have previously obtained Hungarian papers.
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Inside the opposition’s crushing defeat against Viktor Orbán
The chaos was even bigger inside the campaign than it looked from the outside. Direkt36 has investigated how the opposition, which led in the polls last fall, lost against Viktor Orbán’s governing party yet again.
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The cost of the MNB’s new prestige investment, given to a friend of Matolcsy’s son, has been very high
The bank headed by György Matolcsy has spent tens of billions of public money on the renovation of the Postal Palace without knowing much about the background of the project. According to an internal report, the work was beautiful, but “it did not meet the criteria of austerity”.
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A brand new Porsche, a special Ferrari, and billionaire businesses show the rise of Matolcsy’s circle
Direkt36 presents the connection between businessman Ádám Matolcsy, the son of the issue-bank’s director, and the entrepreneur Bálint Fülöp Somlai, who also controls billionaire state tenders with exclusive photos. We also show the story of their enrichment and how their luxurious lifestyle is being helped by state businesses.
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12904. That is my Mom – The untold story of the victims of the coronavirus
Nearly thirty thousand Hungarians died of coronavirus. Who were they? What happened to them from their first symptoms to their death? Article, photo gallery and a documentary film.
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Until now, Orbán’s family has stayed away from public procurements. Now the company of his brother won a lucrative one
Gamma Analcont, a company minority owned by one of Viktor Orban’s younger brothers, won a high-value public procurement for the remote monitoring of gas-networks of E.ON.
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