Orban family is becoming landlord while local farmers get no land lease

Alcsútdoboz is a village in Fejér County, about 50 kilometres west from Budapest, situated next to Viktor Orban, Hungarian prime minister’s native village, Felcsút. This area is the center of these days scandals which started to set media’s agenda since Jozsef Angyan, former undersecretary of the Ministry of Rural Development stepped down. Alcsútdoboz’s historic farm, [...]

Hungarian Academy of Sciences investigated Ferenc Miskolczi’s controversial greenhouse theory

Ferenc Miskolczi, a Hungarian physicist who used to work for NASA, says empirical data proves that carbon dioxide emission has nothing to do with global warming. He does not doubt the existence of global warming, nor belittle the importance of conserving the environment, but he claims that international efforts to reduce CO2 pollution are wrong. [...]

Érpatak: Radical mayor tries to set an iconic public security model

East-Hungarian village of Érpatak, home of 1800 residents evokes World War II hungarist era in the last 3 years. Mayor Mihály Zoltán Orosz rules the village since 2009 and became famous for his public security model, which he thinks could be exemplary for the whole country. The mayor was leading Érpatak illegitimately in the first [...]

Atlatszo.hu wins freedom of information battle over the 5th district municipality

Municipality of the 5th district sued us for correction after our February article, ‘Billions for subcontractor buddies’. As we wrote, the district has spent large figures of public funds on the reconstruction of various buildings in recent years. Bau Holding 2000 Zrt, the company chosen to do most of this work is now under liquidation. [...]

Anonymous leaked far-right Jobbik party documents

Hungarian branch of Anonymous hacker-group made far-right Jobbik party’s homepage and other far-rightist sites temporaly unavailable in late April, as a reaction for their „anti-semite, nazi manifestations.” Two days after the ddos attack atlatszo.hu obtained several excel documents containing member lists, emails, contract plans and many other files, seemingly used for internal purposes. The partly-successful [...]

Atlatszo.hu re-launched suspended facebook page

Investigative journalist Attila Mong, who joined atlatszo.hu in May, created a facebook page back in February, called „I want to meet Lajos and Zsolt.” The two Fidesz- related oligarchs – Lajos Simicska and Zsolt Nyerges – have interests in many companies which are responsible for spending billion forints of public funds. Although their role is pretty [...]

Schmitt-report costed 867 thousand forints

It costed 867 thousand 340 forints for Semmelweis University to find out that Pal Schmitt, stepped down Hungarian president’s doctoral dissertation was based on „unusually large amounts of verbatim translation”. Atlatszo.hu filed a freedom of information request to the University, but spokesperson Eszter Kovács refused to inform us for 15 days. The full 1157-page inquiry [...]

We appeal to the Constitutional Court after the first non-appealable dismissal

Atlatszo.hu filed a freedom of information request last summer to the Ministry of the National Resources to learn about the audit report of the Opera House, made by the minister’s commissioner. According to press informations, the 600 page report detailed abuse of one billion forints. The minister refused our request, so we took legal actions, [...]

We published Educatio Nkft’s contract for the 2011 census

Although the Hungarian Government claimed their will to start the data processing of the paper forms of last year’s census until 15 March, the deadline is postponed to 15 May. The reason for the delay is a governmental intervention in the public procurement process. Originally, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (Központi Statisztikai Hivatal – KSH) [...]

Lajos Simicska named as Közgép’s actual owner

We published the leaked document which admits Lajos Simicska, Fidesz- close businessman as the actual owner of the Közgép Zrt, a giant constructing industry firm. Simicska’s role in Közgép was kept in secret before, the former financial director of governing Fidesz party did not appear in media for years. The recently published file, signed by [...]

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