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Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó manages the crisis in Belarus on a luxury yacht in the Adriatic

The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs is spending this summer seemingly feverish, just visit his Facebook page to make sure: in an office environment, in a suit, with a mobile phone in his hand, he has been discussing the situation in Minsk with high-ranking foreign politicians and foreign minister colleagues in recent days. In comparison, on Sunday, August 16, we saw and photographed the Minister on the Lady MRD, a luxury yacht owned by László Szíjj, on the Adriatic, Croatia, 25 kilometers south of Biograd Na Moru, below the Kornati Islands, with his family on vacation.

Oligarch behind the Lady MRD pleasure craft got rich through state contracts and EU subsidies

Atlatszo published photographs featuring Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó, spending his vacation on a nearly 20 million euros worth luxury yacht, the Lady Mrd. Atlatszo  found out earlier that this yacht  – registered in Malta by a Maltese offshore company – is owned by László Szíjj,  a Hungarian businessman whose construction companies have benefited from countless public procurements and EU subsidies. The fact that a member of the government spent his vacation on the yacht of one of the most powerful economic actors in the country confirms the widely held opinion that there are major corruption issues in Hungary.

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