Company with murky background is at the center of Hungary’s Chinese vaccine deal
There are more and more questions about the procurement of Chinese vaccines. One of the people behind the company supplying the vaccines is a former ice hockey ...
Secret battles of Orban’s rival – Budapest’s first year under opposition rule
What conflicts emerged between Gergely Karácsony and Ferenc Gyurcsány? What did Antal Rogán tell the mayor? Who are the most influential people at Budapestâ€...
Orban’s father was involved in controversial road construction
Not only the European Union, but also the Hungarian government criticized the project for being too expensive. This did not stop the mining company of the PM’...
Offshore company involved in suspicious transactions was protected by Hungarian bank, leaked secret files show
Suspicious transactions have been routinely moved through the Hungarian banking system, Direkt36 has revealed as part of the the global FinCENFiles investigatio...
Links tighten between Orbán’s brother and a businessman who keeps winning public tenders
Gábor Szentgyörgyi has a common business with the son-in-law of the prime minister's brother, and one of his business interests opened a branch on a property ...
IT company to be taken over by government-linked businessman had important clients: prosecutors and secret services
T-Systems Hungary is one of the biggest IT companies in the country. Soon it will be owned by Gellert Jaszai, a businessman with close ties to the government....
This is how the mining company of Viktor Orban’s father became more profitable than its major competitors
The mining company of Viktor Orbán's father has been involved in several major public construction projects in recent years and it has become one of the most s...
A man close to Viktor Orbán’s brother was the head of a department at the tax office. His department was dissolved after we reported about it
Tamás Balogh, an acquaintance of Orbán Győző Jr. became the head of the department in charge of major procurements at the tax office, while his other acquai...
Putin-controlled financial giant has close ties to IIB, the Russian-led bank moving to Hungary
The International Investment Bank, which is about to move its headquarters to Hungary, has been in close contact with VTB, Russia’s second largest bank....
How public money keeps flowing to Orban’s family through Hungary’s new tycoon
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban keeps repeating that he doesn't deal with business issues. The companies of his family members, however, are benefitting f...