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Company owned by Orban’s son in law made a billion forint on taking care of permits for stalling hotel construction project

István Tiborcz’s company did not have to lay a single row of bricks, yet a hotel investment project in the Danube Bend (Visegrád) brought them a billion forint profit. The Prime Minister’s son in law acquired the land and the half finished hotel building in 2017. The project was originally started by an Irish company with a multi-billion forint loan from a state-owned Hungarian bank, MKB. The company went bankrupt following the economic crisis and later the bank sold the claim and as part of it, the hotel project, located in the middle of a protected forest.  The hotel building is now owned by a capital fund connected to László Szíjj, a businessman who has benefited from many public contracts and who is currently the fourth richest Hungarian according to Forbes.  Our drone video shows how business circles close to the government are getting into position not only around Lake Balaton, but also along the scenic locations by the  river Danube.

Inhumane transit zones banned by EU court cost the taxpayers 6 billion HUF in five years

Hungary has closed down its controversial transit zones in Röszke and Tompa after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled, that the detention of asylum seekers is unlawful. We asked the authorities about the cost of the construction and maintenance of the zones between 2015 and 2020.

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VSquare: Red Sludge on the Blue Danube
In Almásfüzitő, a small factory settlement on the banks of the Danube, hazardous waste is being used to create a topsoil to cover solidified red sludge – residue from a long-closed alumina factory. 

Vsquare: NGO? WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE
Since 2014, Hungary has been one of the countries (along with Russia, Bulgaria, etc.) where defamatory propaganda and various restrictions made it clear to non-governmental organisation that they are not welcome in the country if their goals or opinion is different from that of the government’s. 

KafkaDesk: Index.hu bows out: “We really believed in our newspaper and our mission”
András Földes doesn’t know when he’ll be able to pack his bags for his next story in the field. Until last week, this award-winning journalist had been working for 20 years at Index.hu, one of the leading independent and most influential Hungarian online news portal.

DefenseNews: Hungary plunks down $1 billion for new air defenses 
The Hungarian and U.S. governments have announced a $1 billion deal to equip the European country with new air-defense weaponry.

EurActive: Hungary opposition pledge anti-Orbán 2022 election pact
Hungary’s six largest opposition parties pledged Thursday (13 August) to form an unprecedented wide-ranging alliance to challenge Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the next general election in 2022.

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