Swiss Bank Account Tied to Hungarian Tycoon Provides New Details of Alleged Misuse of Government Funds
In an ongoing criminal case prosecutors claim officials of the Ministry of Agriculture fraudulently disbursed HUF 2,2 billion in 2019. Direkt36 has learned that...
Inside the crisis of the Hungarian opposition
The opposition parties that suffered a crushing defeat in 2022 are busy gaining positions in favor of each other instead of weakening the power of Fidesz....
A close acquaintance of Szijjártó acquired the company that is building a factory in Kecskemét, supported by HUF 1 billion from the state
Szilárd Benkő worked for many years alongside Péter Szijjártó and also yachted with him on the Adriatic Sea. The man with a background as an instrument mak...
A businessman known for yachting with Hungarian minister Péter Szijjártó was a member of a group of Fidesz activists destroying opposition’s posters
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...
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 For...
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 rang...
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...
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....
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, l...
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 ...