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A year after the introduction of sanctions on Russia and Belarus, companies trading Russian and Belarusian goods are operating in Poland without hindrance
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Leaked files reveal panic at Russian-led bank in Budapest
Leftist propaganda machinery received the lion’s share of US democracy support
According to a declassified presentation of the Hungarian security services, the money ended up at a network of companies doing online political marketing based on data collection, which were built up around emblematic faces of socialist former governments.
Márton Sarkadi Nagy
Hungarian foundation secretly owns 24 properties in the neighbouring countries
Betlanovce, Kežmarok, Levoča, Veľký Kamenec, Trenčín: these are the settlements where new properties were acquired by a subsidiary of the Foundation for Preserving Built Heritage in Central Europe in Upper Hungary in Slovakia, which was set up by the Hungarian State in areas that belonged to Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon.
How to launder a few million and hide behind lawyers
Slovak oligarchs are hiding their assets in complicated schemes that use lawyers as nominee owners. The Investigative Centre of Ján Kuciak has proof that these lawyers act as the real owners’ proxies and that, in at least one case, such a scheme was utilized for money laundering.
Tomáš Madleňák
Putin’s Orchestra: The Supporter
by Mariusz Sepioło, FRONTSTORY.PL Fan of Putin and Assad, wood trader in Odessa, owner of numerous companies set up in tax havens, friend of spies, anti-vaxxer. Who exactly is Nabil Malazi? This article was originally published in Polish on FRONTSTORY.PL Grey block of flats in Gocław, a Warsaw neighborhood, where apartments serve as business offices […]
The buy-back of Greater Hungary
The Hungarian government has donated two state-owned companies and a total of HUF 15 billion in state assets to the Foundation for Preserving Built Heritage in Central Europe. The companies and their foreign subsidiaries have accumulated a total of 16 properties in the neighbouring countries.
Valuable buildings in two countries bought by Hungarian-owned company
The Wrocław rouges
Adam Hofman was once an influential politician, a member of PiS, Poland’s current ruling party, and now is one of the most recognisable figures in the country’s PR sector. When PiS took power in Poland, his PR agency R4S skilfully positioned itself where the spheres of politics and business meet.