A message from Orbán’s son-in-law and an investigation into phantom offices
I have covered the businesses of István Tiborcz, the son-in-law of the Hungarian Prime Minister, for years. Last year I didn’t write that much about him, sin...
Six things Direkt36 revealed about the company of Orbán’s son-in-law, and later were also found suspicious by the EU’s Anti-fraud Office
(Magyar) Az EU csalás elleni hivatala súlyos szabálytalanságokat talált a miniszterelnök vejének egykori cége, az Elios közbeszerzéseiben. Több fonto...
Government official János Lázár gibbers about suspicious tenders won by the son-in-law of the Prime Minister
The European Union’s antifraud office has found serious irregularities in public projects carried out by a company formerly owned by the son-in-law of Hungary...
Hungarian town decided to build a hostel for talented kids from public money. But the construction ended up in a four-star hotel
The Hungarian town of Balatonfüred received over 1,5 million euros to build an academy for young handball players, but it turned out to be a four-star hotel. A...
Orbán’s best paid advisor spends an outstanding amount on representation too
Zsuzsa Hegedűs is the advisor of the Hungarian PM on social cohesion.
She recently got an outstanding pay-raise and she also spends the most
on representation ...
Constructor of a swimming pool used for the FINA World Championships left behind debts of 1,7 million euros
A long-awaited swimming pool has been opened in January in Balatonfüred, and almost immediately the general contractor of the construction went under liquidati...
He had a lucrative business with Orbán’s father but then they entered a dispute that courts have been sitting on for 9 years
In an unusually long lawsuit, a former business partner of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's family claims that they stole his idea. The Orbán family's company de...
Hungarian MPs waste millions on hidden, dusty and expensive offices
A joint investigation by Direkt36 and RTL Klub has revealed that members of parliament often misuse money allocated to office renting....
How to divert millions from a program that is a source of pride for Viktor Orbán
A subsidy received thanks to a trick, and worth hundreds of millions of forints, was used to build Balatonfüred's swimming pool, an old dream of the locals. Al...
(Magyar) Hogyan cserkésztem be Tiborcz Istvánt?
(Magyar) Vorák Anita már régóta szeretett volna feltenni pár kérdést a miniszterelnök vejének. Végül egy szakácsversenyen sikerült megközelíteni....