Financial Times: The FT’s analysis shows that 14 per cent of all the funds awarded in state tenders under Orbán went to 42 companies owned by the 13 associates. They had won just 1 per cent between 2005 and his election in 2010.
In total, they netted more than €28bn in government tenders from 2010 to late 2025, either alone or as part of consortiums — an average of €1.8bn a year. In the five years before Orbán took power combined, they won only a third of that annual average: €608mn.
The €1.8bn average is a 15-fold increase from the €121mn per year earned in the five years before Orbán’s election…