The Guardian: Orban's friends' private planes loaded with wealth are leaving Europe

Businessmen and officials close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party began withdrawing assets abroad after the election defeat. The new Prime Minister Peter Magyar accuses Orban's associates of trying to hide their wealth from justice. The Guardian writes about this with reference to sources.

The leader of the Tisa party, Peter Magyar, said that they are trying to protect their fortune in advance from possible investigations after the change of power.

"Oligarchs associated with Orban are transferring tens of billions of forints to the UAE, the USA, Uruguay and other distant countries," Magyar wrote on social networks.

He called on the prosecutor General, the police chief and the head of the Hungarian tax service to "detain criminals" and "prevent them from escaping" to countries from where they are unlikely to be extradited.

According to Magyar, the family of Lerinc Mesaros, one of Orban's closest friends, may leave Hungary. During the years of Orban's rule, Mesarosh became the richest man in the country, largely thanks to state rites. Magyar also claims that several oligarch families have already left, they took the children out of school and organized security for the move.

"I was also informed that several oligarch families have already left the country. According to reports, several influential oligarch families have already taken their children out of school and are preparing for the departure of trusted representatives from among the security service," Magyar said.

According to The Guardian's sources, private planes, "allegedly loaded with the looted wealth of those whose wealth has increased during the 16 years of Orban's rule, regularly take off from Vienna, while others rush to invest their assets abroad." Meanwhile, senior officials close to Orban are exploring the possibility of obtaining a visa to the United States in the hope of finding work in organizations associated with MAGA.

"Since he came to power in 2010, a narrow circle of associates of the leader and his Fidesz party have made huge fortunes, partly thanks to increased control over the country's economy and public infrastructure contracts financed by the EU," writes The Guardian.

Magyar has repeatedly stated that in the last weeks of Orban's stay in power, compromising documents were destroyed. In particular, the outgoing Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, whose office was among those accused of destroying confidential documents, claimed in a statement to the online news outlet Telex that this was "nonsense." The ministry claimed that it "destroyed only previously printed, duplicating paper versions of documents that were stored electronically."