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The front page of 444.hu focuses heavily on alleged financial misconduct involving the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) and its governor, György Matolcsy. Several articles detail investigations into the mismanagement of public funds, the transfer of assets into foundations, and the alleged…
The National Bank of Hungary (MNB), led by Matolcsy, transferred hundreds of billions in public assets to foundations, with a significant portion allegedly disappearing. The Central Investigating Prosecutor's Office is conducting operations at multiple locations.
While everyone was celebrating the lifting of COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of 2021, István Száraz and his associates were occupied with other matters.
A few years ago, the banker governor's son's friends began receiving their first ten-million forint grants from around the National Bank. Today, they are getting rich from billion-forint MNB contracts.
If you get dizzy from Zrt. companies, don't understand all the Pallas Athena references, and have no idea what a private equity fund is, this summary of one of the most brazen giveaways of public funds in recent decades is for you.
The businessman felt it was time to clarify his connection—or lack thereof—to Felis Private Equity Fund, Quartz Fund Management, or Matolcsy Ádám, and therefore sent a lengthy statement.
Details are promised by evening.
Pál Fürcht, the former chief prosecutor who investigated important cases and has since spoken about political pressure, is expected in a parliamentary fact-finding committee this afternoon. He is expected to discuss the Völner-Schadl case and Péter Magyar's phone call scandal; the former was a key…
He has refused to pay his staff members since the Paris Olympics.
The mysterious radnaimark.hu generated astonishing interest two months before the elections, but mo
