Bracing for US sanctions, Russian financier in Budapest was busy securing personal offshore assets, leaked documents reveal
Until last autumn, Nikolay Kosov headed the International Investment Bank, which is leaving Hungary. According to documents obtained by Direkt36, the Russian ba...
Russians demand their money in Hungary’s controversial golden visa scheme
Lawyers of bondholders told Direkt36 that hundreds of thousands of euros were stuck with the intermediary company VolDan. Meanwhile, the company's Hungarian rep...
“We need to pressure” the Hungarians – Leaked documents reveal collapse of Russian-led bank in Budapest
Internal documents obtained by Direkt36 reveal that the Hungarian government has become one of the strongest backers of the Russian-dominated International Inve...
Russian spy chief’s son has a Budapest home address. In the company property of an old friend of Orbán’s chief of staff
Official document shows that Andrey Naryshkin, who acquired residency permit in the Hungarian golden visa scheme, had his registered home address in a property ...
Inside Viktor Orbán’s Response to the War in Ukraine
Viktor Orbán came home from his talks with Vladimir Putin saying that he did not expect war. When it did break out, there was some wavering on the continuation...
The inside story of how Pegasus was brought to Hungary
Direkt36 has revealed that the cyber weapon was purchased by the Hungarian state through a broker company that later became partly owned by Minister of Interior...
Western allies puzzled by Hungary’s mild reaction to Russian hacking
Russia's hacking of the Hungarian foreign ministry is a concern for the EU, and the U.S. has already warned Hungary and other allies about the dangers of Russia...
Cables show how Orbán’s diplomats gather information on journalists
The information contained in these documents was gathered by diplomats of the Orbán government from social media profiles of journalists or online reports, as ...
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 attorney became a Pegasus target when one of Hungary’s most notorious murder cases took a turn
Ilona Patócs is not the first lawyer to be targeted, despite the fact that protecting client communication is an essential part of her job, Direkt36 has learne...