{"id":6887,"date":"2021-05-05T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2021-05-05T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:08:37","slug":"hogyan-tarultak-fel-az-orban-banya-titkai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/hogyan-tarultak-fel-az-orban-banya-titkai\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the secrets of the Orb\u00e1n family&#8217;s businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago we published our first story on how the family of Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n is benefiting from state projects. Now we are sharing what we have found out &#8211; and how we found it out &#8211; since then in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZtkTiQt3wLw\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n 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.<\/p>\n<p>His family members, meanwhile,\u00a0have earned billions of Hungarian forints (millions of euros). The source of their wealth \u2013 at least, partly \u2013 is public money,\u00a0as Direkt36 revealed and proved.<\/p>\n<p>The main conclusions of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/category\/az-orban-csalad-uzletei\/\">4-year-long investigation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/rejtett-allami-munkakbol-is-jott-penz-az-orban-csalad-gyorsan-szerzett-milliardjaihoz\/\">followed trucks<\/a> leaving from the mine of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s father<\/li>\n<li>How we found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/orban-viktor-alig-hitte-el-hogy-a-csaladtagjai-alvallalkozokent-dolgoznak-allami-epitkezesen-most-itt-a-bizonyitek\/\">the first evidence<\/a> that proves that the companies of the Orb\u00e1n family supply building materials for large infrastructure projects, financed by the Hungarian state and the European Union<\/li>\n<li>How we obtained and processed nearly hundred thousand pages of projects documents, after a several years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/meg-a-kormany-is-draganak-talalta-az-m4-es-epiteset-dokumentumok-bizonyitjak-hogy-orban-apjanak-cegetol-vettek-hozza-a-koveket\/\">FOIA lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How we discovered that\u00a0public money is flowing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/igy-folyik-tovabb-a-kozpenz-meszaros-lorinctol-az-orban-csaladhoz\/\">Orb\u00e1n\u2019s family<\/a> through Hungary\u2019s new tycoon<\/li>\n<li>And how we confronted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/igy-magyarazkodott-orban-viktor-az-apja-cegenek-allami-munkairol\/\">Viktor Orb\u00e1n in Brussels<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/draga-ne-probalkozzon-mert-fogy-a-turelmem-orban-apjat-kerdeztuk-az-allami-megbizasairol\/\">his father at his mine<\/a> with our findings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The animation and graphics of the video were done by Art\u00far Andr\u00e1si, and the studio recording was made by the Speak Easy Project.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n claims that he does not have any savings, but his family members have earned millions of euros in recent years, partly from public money from the Hungarian state and the European Union. We explain how we investigated the businesses of Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s family in an animated video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":6889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-444.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,184,186,222,258,259],"ppma_author":[556,522],"aioseo_notices":[],"fimg_url":["https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/D36-OrbanBanya-Thumbnail.jpeg",1160,600,false],"authors":[{"term_id":556,"user_id":21,"is_guest":0,"slug":"zoldi-blankadirekt36-hu","display_name":"Blanka Z\u00f6ldi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9c77fb7bfdbe3f6493e351e13fec0698?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Z\u00f6ldi","first_name":"Blanka","job_title":"","description":""},{"term_id":522,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"andraspetho","display_name":"Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Petho-Andras.png","url2x":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Petho-Andras.png"},"author_category":"1","user_url":"","last_name":"Peth\u0151","first_name":"Andr\u00e1s","job_title":"","description":"[:hu]Andr\u00e1s a Direkt36 egyik alap\u00edt\u00f3ja, szerkeszt\u0151je \u00e9s \u00fcgyvezet\u0151 igazgat\u00f3ja. Kor\u00e1bban az Origo vezet\u0151 szerkeszt\u0151je volt, miel\u0151tt a port\u00e1l r\u00e9sze lett a korm\u00e1ny propagandag\u00e9pezet\u00e9nek. Andr\u00e1s dolgozott a BBC World Service-n\u00e9l Londonban \u00e9s a Washington Post t\u00e9nyfelt\u00e1r\u00f3 rovat\u00e1n\u00e1l is. R\u00e9szt vett sz\u00e1mos nagy nemzetk\u00f6zi nyomoz\u00f3 projektben, k\u00f6zt\u00fck a Panama-iratok feldolgoz\u00e1s\u00e1ban. K\u00e9tszer is elnyerte a legjobbnak \u00edt\u00e9lt t\u00e9nyfelt\u00e1r\u00f3 cikkek szerz\u0151inek j\u00e1r\u00f3 Soma-d\u00edjat. T\u00f6bbsz\u00f6r tanult \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjjal az Egyes\u00fclt \u00c1llamokban: 2008-ban a World Press Institute programj\u00e1ban, 2012-13-ban Humphrey-\u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjask\u00e9nt a Marylandi Egyetemen, 2019-20-ban pedig Nieman-\u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjask\u00e9nt a Harvard Egyetemen. Andr\u00e1s t\u00f6bb magyar egyetemen is tan\u00edtott \u00fajs\u00e1g\u00edr\u00f3 kurzusokat.[:en]Andr\u00e1s is co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the government\u2019s propaganda outlet. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers and the Pegasus Project. He plays a leading role in the production of Direkt36\u2019s documentaries, including The Dynasty, the award-winning film on the business empire of Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s family. He won the Soma Prize, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary, three times. He was a World Press Institute fellow in 2008, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012\/13, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019\/20. 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