Four years ago we published our first story on how the family of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is benefiting from state projects. Now we are sharing what we have found out – and how we found it out – since then in this video:
Viktor Orbán has been in power for more than ten years, but he claims that during this time he has not become a wealthy man: according to his latest asset declaration, he does not even have any savings.
His family members, meanwhile, have earned billions of Hungarian forints (millions of euros). The source of their wealth – at least, partly – is public money, as Direkt36 revealed and proved.
The main conclusions of our 4-year-long investigation:
- How we followed trucks leaving from the mine of Orbán’s father
- How we found the first evidence that proves that the companies of the Orbán family supply building materials for large infrastructure projects, financed by the Hungarian state and the European Union
- How we obtained and processed nearly hundred thousand pages of projects documents, after a several years of FOIA lawsuit
- How we discovered that public money is flowing to Orbán’s family through Hungary’s new tycoon
- And how we confronted Viktor Orbán in Brussels and his father at his mine with our findings
The animation and graphics of the video were done by Artúr Andrási, and the studio recording was made by the Speak Easy Project.
