György Soros no longer the richest Hungarian?

Forbes.hu and blikk.hu reported that it is no longer György Soros, the Hungarian-American investor and business magnate who is the richest Hungarian in the world. In fact, it is Tamás Péterffy. Based on the constantly updated list of American Forbes, Soros fell back to the 196th rank (in world total) after he had announced an enourmous donation to his foundation. As a consequence, the Hungarian-born Tamás Péterffy, with his 82th position, preceded not only him, but other significant well-known people like Rupert Murdich, the media magnate, too.

Tamás Péterffy is the 82th richest man in the world and the 31th richest in the USA. He lives in West Palm Beach in the close proximity of the president’s exclusive and private club, the Mar-a-Lago where he is also a member. He usually dines together with his Republican friends several times a week. Furthermore, he personally gave pieces of advice to Donald Trump.

Péterffy possesses 13.8 billion dollars, based on the updated list of Forbes, that is twice as much as the total wealth of the 10 richest Hungarians.

To make a comparison, the richest person living in Hungary is Sándor Csányi, the president of OTP Bank Group, who owns only 1/10th of the wealth of Péterffy, that is around 948 million euros.

It was only recently that Péterffy surpassed György Soros, after the Hungarian-American investor donated a significant part of his fortune to his foundation. Péterffy only met Soros once, and in his interview with Forbes, he revealed that he does not have a good opinion of him. He believes that there is no dictatorship in America. Soros, however, supports the public trouble-makers and the CEU (Central European University) is only a tool for him to put his money where it is unmonitored.