Are businesses close to the Hungarian government the biggest beneficiaries of the pandemic?
Hungary has been suffering from the third wave of coronavirus for the past weeks. Still, there are quite a lot of those who seem to be getting on well in this situation.
Some say the peak is very close and that we will soon be over the worst, partly thanks to the rapid vaccination program and the number of available vaccines in the country (which is doing very well in this respect; for more details, click here).
Numbers, however, are showing the opposite.
Hungary is among the countries with the highest mortality rates,
while on Thursday, almost 1,800 covid patients were treated in the intensive care unit and over 9,000 new cases were detected. What is even more shocking is the fact that 82% of patients in the ICU need to be on ventilators.
In these unbelievable and painful circumstances, there is still a small group who seem not only to survive but get on pretty well, too. Valaszonline.hu has found an undeniable connection between the mysterious company importing the Chinese vaccines into Hungary and merchants selling ventilators, who happen to have some indirect ties both to PM Viktor Orbán and Minister of Foreign Affairs Péter Szijjártó.
This “group” sold a gigantic medical package to the government, apart from the vaccines and the machines. So far,
they have generated an income of 105 billion forints (over 291 million euros) for themselves through this business.
A total of 35 partners with whom the government had signed a business deal are on a list provided by the National Centre for Public Health. Considering the whole amount of the expenditure sacrificed on fighting the pandemic, almost one-quarter of all financial resources were paid for this particular “group”.
Fourcardinal Kft. can be linked to members of the Hungarian government on several levels.
Firstly, the company conducted commercial activities abroad, assigned by the government. Zsuzsanna Rahói, the senior advisor of the Prime Minister who is linked to the company in many ways, may be a familiar figure to the public. She can be seen very often on international diplomatic trips as part of the Hungarian delegate. Although it has not been openly stated by her, many photos prove that from time to time, she attends the prime minister’s daughter’s and her husband’s private business meetings, too. Moreover, Rahói’s brother used to be the CEO of Fourcardinal. Back in September, the company signed a co-operation deal that was worth 17 billion forints (47 million euros) for the importation of ventilators.
After the pandemic took a serious turn, the executive board of the company was rearranged a bit. The entourage of Rahói stayed in a high-up position, meanwhile, 2 new faces joined the business. Both of them are linked to Márk Szeverényi, who trades with medications and has ties to Péter Szijjártó through his sister. Said sister and her husband both work or used to work in Foreign Relations.
Not long after the contract on ventilators was signed, the company managed to agree with the government on a project to import different equipment needed in hospitals. Thousands of machines monitoring patients and infusion pumps were delivered for double the previous contract’s sum, increasing the total up to 50 billion forints (138 million euros) at that point.
Márk Szeverényi’s name appears again when it comes to Sinopharm vaccines. Danubia Pharma Kft., who arranged the super expensive shots for Hungary, used to be part of his portfolio. According to Valaszonline.hu’s sources, he still has ties to the business.
Danubia Pharma has collected 55 billion forints (over 152 million euros) thanks to the co-operation on vaccines.
These two companies and a small group of people linked to PM Viktor Orbán’s advisory board and the family of Péter Szijjártó’s secretary won almost the quarter of the whole “national cash register” designated to fight Covid.
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Source: valaszonline.hu
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Typical Orbanistan story. When will Hungarians wake up?
I was in my local CBA yesterday. An elderly man I think was wondering if he could steal a tin of food and another was a thousand forint short on his four thousand forint bill at the checkout. These greedy, self serving politicians have done this. The government tries to promote Christian values. What Christian values do they have. As the saying goes, Nero fiddled while Rome burned. How very apt.
Bombshell of an Article.
Hungary the crisis time we are in – worsening daily.
Every direction we look at present and it’s WORSENING daily – the Economy, coronavirus pandemic numbers, unemployment, devaluation of the huf , growing and mounting citizens unrest, to name but few, of the massive challenges this present Government has on it’s plate.
If I include the collapsing property market, because true facts are being veiled – what horrendous and mountainous challenges confront us in our fight to Survive.
What percentage at present not forgetting the overall situation is Worsening daily, of the Hungarian population say of 9.6 million – are barely surviving ?
Would 75% of us be in the ball park figure ? – or am I being to conservative underestimating the decay in our lives, the quality of our lives, that we are experiencing.
Veiled and fabricated comments from Government that the summer months will be back to Normal, and as a country and we will benefit economically from this return to normality.
Candour – if we do not get it from the present Government, then acts of highly questionable affairs and dealings taking place by high positioned Government Ministers that the smoke of there illegal activities does appear to have fueled lit and ignited mass fires, what alternatives, as citizens of Hungary, in a supposed system of Democracy, do we resort to, that will shame and embarrass, deepen the growing citizenship population of Hungary discontentment of our present Government?
Social media – use it – Communicate through it that is FACT material.
Social Media is a POWERFUL weapon to use build on and around that provides the POWER to COMMUNICATE – get messages of Fact out there into the population into all sectors of citizenship.
The 2022 National Elections – people given power through there right to vote under Democracy – must be used.
Voting is the Power Voice of the People.
We are challenged Hungary on all fronts at present, worsening daily.
The immediate future one of great uncertainty.
This bombshell of Governments abuse of its Power and Position – if it was 50% per cent even FACTUAL would be devastating.
If it was 100% – it would be deserving of a mass outcry from us the citizens of Hungary, who in vast numbers are literally on our knees just to survive this perilous time we are in as a country.
It should never if it has occurred – and never been a need be put out COMMUNICATE the corruptive acts of criminal typed activity, that this article contains in it’s writing, impacting into the lives of the citizens of Hungary.
We all thank “Pope Disturbance” for his recent pontifications.
As usual, most of us will be wondering what on Earth the poor man is taking.
By the way, it is now obvious that Mario is a pet parrot which has been taught the word ‘ORBANISTAN’ to screech out between crapping on Palma Bruder’s (left) shoulder.
It is MOST UNLIKELY that any of the above three D.N.H. ‘contributors’ are registered Hungarian voters so (as usual) the ultimate decision about Hungary’s next Government will be made by its CITIZENS – not a small group of disaffected leftist ‘brown-tongues’.
Like their ‘puppet-masters’ in Brussels, these individuals must be suffering from severe indigestion whilst observing what occurs within Hungary and – in all probability – will experience bleeding ulcers when Viktor Orban and his Fidesz-led Government is re-elected in 2022 by a (substantial) majority.
AlfredE Neuman, from your comments something tells me you’ll be the one with the ulcer, if you haven’t one already …..
WHAT, ME WORRY ?
He does not worry. His psychiatrist surely does….