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The most valuable Hungarian casinos given to government-close oligarchs until 2056!
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The previous concessions would have expired in 2024, but the National Bureau of Concessions, a body under the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office, issued new licenses now. They tried to keep it secret, but one of the readers found the decision on the website of the Gambling Supervision Board.
We wrote before that the National Bureau of Concessions would give the operation of the Hungarian motorways into the concession of companies for 35 years. Opposition parties say that the decision will be the biggest theft of the past 30 years. Párbeszéd party called on Hungary’s data protection authority (NAIH) to review whether the calculation of motorway concessions should remain subject to secrecy for the next ten years.
Interestingly, the length of new concessions in the case of the casinos is the same. The decision would give the most valuable Hungarian casinos
to two government-close oligarchs until 2056.
Before, Andy Vajna, a Hungarian film producer, owned the concession rights of the Hungarian Las Vegas casinos. After he died in 2019, István Garancsi and Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, the former husband of the government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi, received it in 60-40pc.
The “casino family” contains the Atlantis, Atrium Eurocenter, Corvin Promenade, Sofitel, and Tropicana casinos. All of them are in Budapest.
Government contracts being awarded without public tender to government cronies in secret – who would have thought it?
How strange,never imagined such things happened in the Autocracy of Orbanistan….
This comes as no surprise surely. I’d like to think even Maria Von Theresa would be hard pressed to find a reason why this is acceptable