{"id":832,"date":"2015-05-06T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T09:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/?p=832"},"modified":"2022-10-11T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T21:36:35","slug":"egy-rejtelyes-vallalkozo-milliardos-allami-munkakat-kap-a-cege-o-megis-egy-hotelben-dolgozik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/egy-rejtelyes-vallalkozo-milliardos-allami-munkakat-kap-a-cege-o-megis-egy-hotelben-dolgozik\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Entrepreneur: His Company Is Flush With State Money, Yet He Keeps Working as a Hotel Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Andr\u00e1s B\u00f3dis has not been living the life of a high-flying businessman. The 30-year-old man with a shaved head and sporty physique grew up in an apartment block in Csepel, a working class district of Budapest. For the last five years, he has been working in a three-star hotel as facility manager.<\/div>\n<p>Andr\u00e1s B\u00f3dis, however, is also a founder and sole owner of a construction company that has accumulated \u2013 partly as member of several consortia &#8211; state contracts worth at least HUF 6.4 billion (EUR 21.3 million) since its creation in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, called EU-Line, received most of these contracts \u2013 nearly HUF 5.5 billion (EUR 18.3 million) &#8211; from the municipality of Budapest\u2019s 5th district during the last three years of Antal Rog\u00e1n\u2019s term as mayor. Rog\u00e1n is a prominent politician of the governing Fidesz party, now the majority leader in the Hungarian parliament. The total value of the contracts made EU-Line one of the biggest construction business partners of the municipality in the last 17 years, Direkt36\u2019s analysis of procurement data provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/kozbeszerzes.ceu.hu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CEU\u2019s Microdata research group<\/a>, showed.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00f3dis has achieved this without running or owning a company before launching EU-Line or without having had serious experience in major construction projects. When asked about his background in the construction industry, he cited only his facility management work in the hotel, which includes tasks like \u201drepairing, fixing, building and developing\u201d. He kept this job even though EU-Line has billions in contracts and produced profits of HUF 49 million (EUR 163.300) in its second full year of operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI founded EU-Line not with the purpose of making a living but as an investment because I saw an opportunity to be present\u00a0in a certain area of the construction industry\u201d, B\u00f3dis wrote in an email. He claims not to have taken any money out of EU-Line yet. He also says that he does not take part in the firm\u2019s daily operations, which allows him to continue his hotel work.<\/p>\n<p>Direkt36 spent more than two months examining EU-Line\u2019s history and its activities. The investigation showed that there are several indirect links between the company and J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n, a businessman with a long history in construction business. Between 2000 and 2010, his firm was one of the most frequently hired companies by the municipality of the 5th district.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the companies of the 51-year-old Borzov\u00e1n, who is described by those who know him as attractive and always elegantly dressed, have won smaller state tenders. He also got out of several of his companies in the past few years. One of his last big contracts from the 5th district was a project partly funded by the European Union. It was worth several billion HUF and was launched in 2009 with the goal of renovating some of the district\u2019s public spaces. Later, EU institutions raised concerns about the how the winning companies \u2013 including Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s firm \u2013 had been chosen for the project. Hungarian police are investigating the project, though it is not clear who the target of the investigation is.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00f3dis and Borzov\u00e1n confirmed that they know each other but they also claim that their relationship has nothing to do with EU-Line\u2019s activities. \u201eI did not and do not participate in the company\u2019s operations\u201d, wrote Borzov\u00e1n in an email responding to Direkt36\u2019s questions. B\u00f3dis made a similar statement.<\/p>\n<h3>Juan, the Uruguayan businessman<\/h3>\n<p>One of the links between the two men happens to be the Hotel Central Basilica, a three-star hotel with a modest reception hall but located near a popular touristic spot, the St. Stephen\u2019s Basilica, and the workplace of Andr\u00e1s B\u00f3dis. B\u00f3dis said he got to know Borzov\u00e1n when he started working there in 2010 because one of Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s companies has been doing the maintenance work in the hotel since its opening.<\/p>\n<p>Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s connection to the hotel was also revealed in the documentation of a government program that aimed to help businesses, including the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The predecessor of the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency issued a brochure in 2012, which featured Hotel Central Basilica\u2019s expansion as a project in need of investment. The brochure listed J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n as the \u201downer of the project\u201d (this was first reported <a href=\"http:\/\/vs.hu\/kozelet\/osszes\/egy-vitatott-belvarosi-ingatlan-korul-tunt-fel-a-varos-szive-epitoje-0126#!s25.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by Vs.hu in an article<\/a> examining Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s other activities)<\/p>\n<p>The agency says that they were not directly in contact with Borzov\u00e1n but with Andr\u00e1s Zelei, a contact person who provided all the information about the hotel project. When asked about Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s role, Zelei, who also worked on other projects featured in the brochure, told Direkt36 that he is \u201cnot in the position to talk about this\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Borzov\u00e1n claims that the term, \u201cowner of the project,\u201d referred only to the fact that he was in charge of the hotel\u2019s expansion. \u201cThe hotel was developed by my company, which has been doing the maintenance work since then,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reveal the identity of the hotel\u2019s owners also led to links to Borzov\u00e1n. Since its opening, the hotel has been owned by foreign companies whose ownership structure is hidden in registries that cannot be accessed by the public. For years, the hotel was owned \u2013 through a Hungarian firm &#8211; by a company registered in Liechtenstein, where local rules make it possible for owners to remain in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, the hotel was taken over by BAU R.S.I, a company registered in Uruguay, another country which does not give access to information on company owners. In the case of this company, however, links could be established to Hungary, and personally to J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>This company has the same Montevideo address as a man named Juan Borzovan Nagy, records show. The Hispanic sounding name belongs to J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n, the 51-year-old Hungarian businessman. Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s mother\u2019s name is Nagy, but it is not only the similarity of the names that suggests that the two versions belong to the same person. The place and date of birth of Juan Borzovan Nagy and J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n are the same, records show.<\/p>\n<p>The Montevideo address belonging to both BAU R.S.I and Juan Borzovan Nagy is listed in the Uruguay\u2019s phone directory under the name of Borzovan. A call to the number shown in the directory was answered by a man sounding old and speaking Hungarian with a slight accent. He said that Borzov\u00e1n is his friend, who has visited Uruguay several times and uses his address to make residence in the country easier for him.<\/p>\n<p>Borzov\u00e1n confirmed that he stays at this address when he visits Uruguay. He added that he knows BAU R.S.I., the company registered at the same place, but he claims that he has no other connection with it. Direkt36, however, obtained the company\u2019s official registration document showing that Juan Borzovan Nagy was the president of BAU R.S.I. from July 2007 to February 2014, BAU R.S.I., not long before it became owner of the hotel in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eI was asked to be the president of the company by a Uruguayan lawyer whom I know\u201d, wrote Borzov\u00e1n. He declined to answer questions about the company\u2019s ownership. \u201eTo my knowledge, the company had no activities during my tenure as president. Because I am not an official of the company any more I am not entitled to give statements about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>BAU R.S.I.\u2019s current president is a man who shares the same Montevideo address registered to Borzov\u00e1n, records show. The man reached on the phone number belonging to the address asked for the questions about BAU R.S.I. in writing. He said that he would later provide an email address later but this did not happen. He ended the next call abruptly and could not been reached at a later attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The man has the same family name as that of BAU R.S.I.\u2019s current president. It could not be\u00a0confirmed during the calls, however, that he is in fact the same person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>This info graphic shows the connections between B\u00f3dis and Borzov\u00e1n. The +\/- signs next to names highlight the interests:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"resp-iframe-euline\">[iframe src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/wp-content\/projects\/euline\/euline_eng.html&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;100%&#8221; scrolling=&#8221;no&#8221; ]<\/div>\n<p>Another link between EU-Line and Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s business interests is the location where EU-Line is operating. Although the company is registered at a house in the suburbs of Budapest, its phone numbers are listed at an address in a building on a quiet street in the downtown area where a big sign also shows EU-Line\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p>The property belongs to the municipality of 8th district and is being rented by a company which has been owned since March 2015 by EU-Line and BAU R.S.I., the Uruguayan company registered at the address of Juan Borzovan Nagy. In the previous five years, the company was owned by a firm registered in Cyprus, whose documents also listed Juan Borzovan Nagy as one of its representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The mailbox at the gate of the property lists five companies, three of which have direct links to Borzov\u00e1n. He owns one of them and holds an office in the two others. The remaining two companies are owned by foreign firms, which also have indirect links to Borzov\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>Borzov\u00e1n said that he recommended the property to EU-Line, whose owner he had known by then. \u201cThey were looking for an office and I suggested them this place where I also had my office,\u201d he wrote, noting that \u201dif anybody had anything to hide regarding this they wouldn\u2019t have put their sign on the property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer is another connection between EU-Line and Borzov\u00e1n. EU-Line has been represented in the company court by Mih\u00e1ly M\u00e1trai, a lawyer who has also worked for several of Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s firms, records show. M\u00e1trai declined to answer questions about his clients, citing attorney-client privilege. \u201dI cannot add anything to the information that is already available in the company registry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00f3dis and Borzov\u00e1n did not dispute these links between them. B\u00f3dis even emphasized that he has a strong relationship with Borzov\u00e1n.\u201dI know J\u00e1nos, I speak with him several times a week, we have a good business relation and also mutual acquaintances, colleagues, business partners, and yes, lawyers too, but this is completely normal,\u201d wrote B\u00f3dis.<\/p>\n<p>Borzov\u00e1n said that he got to know B\u00f3dis in the \u201dcompany of mutual friends\u201d and though he claims that he had nothing to do with EU-Line\u2019s foundation he noted that he and B\u00f3dis discussed the company\u2019s launch. \u201cGiven that I have known the company\u2019s owner, whom I consider as a friend, he asked my opinion about his future plans. I shared my thoughts with him, which he either took into consideration or not,\u201d Borzov\u00e1n wrote.<\/p>\n<h3>A spectacular rise<\/h3>\n<p>Whatever ideas drove Andr\u00e1s B\u00f3dis in the launch of EU-Line, they proved to be fruitful. Even though the construction industry, as statistical reports showed, was then going through a rough period at the time, EU-Line delivered an enviable performance soon after its foundation in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th district was an auspicious environment for this rise.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_830\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rogan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-830\" class=\"wp-image-830 size-full\" title=\"Forr\u00e1s: Belv\u00e1ros-Lip\u00f3tv\u00e1ros \u00d6nkorm\u00e1nyzata\" src=\"http:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rogan.jpg\" alt=\"Forr\u00e1s: Belv\u00e1ros-Lip\u00f3tv\u00e1ros \u00d6nkorm\u00e1nyzata\" width=\"595\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antal Rog\u00e1n, a prominent government politician and former mayor of the 5th district of Budapest &#8211; Source: Belv\u00e1ros-Lip\u00f3tv\u00e1ros \u00d6nkorm\u00e1nyzata<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A little more than 6 months after its launch, the company was awarded a contract worth HUF 140 million (EUR 466,000) from the municipality. EU-Line shared the work with its consortium partner T\u00e9r Bau Holding, a company owned at the time by J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>The companies were tasked to build and maintain the cobblestone areas prevalent in the district\u2019s public spaces. There was another bidder for this job but later, when the need arose to continue the cobblestone maintenance, the municipality attempted to give the contract to the consortium of EU-Line and T\u00e9r Bau without any competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2012, the municipality launched a new procurement for the cobblestone work but this time it did not make a public announcement. It invited only the consortium of T\u00e9r Bau and EU-Line to make an offer. The municipality argued, records show, that the work is identical with the subject of the 2011 contract so it would be practical to continue working with the same companies.<\/p>\n<p>The work description was indeed the same but the value was much higher than in 2011 contract. The municipality estimated that the work would cost HUF 962 million (EUR 3.2 million).<\/p>\n<p>In the end the procedure fell through for an external reason. The Public Procurement Arbitration Board, a state agency in charge of overseeing procurements conducted without competition, launched an investigation after having concluded that \u201cthe laws regulating procurements may have been breached\u201d. The arbitration board did not respond to questions about the details of its objections\u00a0but the wording of its decision suggests that the board had doubts whether the municipality was justified in\u00a0launching a procurement process without competition.<\/p>\n<p>Following the board\u2019s decision the municipality withdrew its procurement. EU-Line lost a chance to get a contract worth nearly HUF 1 billion that was in its reach. The company, however, did not have reasons to feel sorry. Shortly before the cobblestone procurement\u2019s withdrawal, EU-Line was awarded an even bigger contract by the 5th district.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2012, the municipality announced the result of the procurement for the construction work of the second phase of the district\u2019s gigantic development project, \u201cBudapest\u2019s New Main Street.&#8221; The tender was won by an EU-Line-led consortium with a price of nearly HUF 2.6 billion (EUR 8.6 million). The consortium\u2019s other partner was Penta General Construction, a company that has been in the construction business since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>EU-Line\u2019s success in this sizable tender was remarkable because the company did not have\u00a0the required qualifications even shortly before the bidding was closed. This is revealed in a document concerning EU-Line\u2019s management.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year of EU-Line, founder and owner Andr\u00e1s B\u00f3dis also held the position of CEO. This could have been a busy period for him because in addition to his duties as a company owner and manager he was also working in the Hotel Central Basilica. He gave up his position as CEO of EU-Line only in the summer of 2012 when Lajos Tilli, a 71-year old construction professional, was appointed as the new top manager. Tilli and his family have had an engineering company for more than 20 years and he also worked as the CEO of \u00dajpesti V\u00e1rosgondnoks\u00e1g, a company involved in the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>A company document reveals that Tilli\u2019s appointment was very urgent for EU-Line. In July 2012, the firm\u2019s lawyer submitted a document to the company courts, saying that Tilli took over as CEO on the 1st of July. The letter, written with a tone of urgency, asked the court to fast-track the registration of this change, explaining that EU-Line needed it for a procurement procedure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company has to prove that it can comply with the professional requirements in the procedure. The company concluded a deal at the end of June with Mr. Lajos Tilli, who has the necessary professional qualifications\u201d, wrote the lawyer. He added that the registration of this appointment is \u201cindispensible for the company\u2019s bid on the tender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The document does not identify the tender and EU-Line did not answer a question about which specific tender the letter alludes to. The dates, however, suggest that it was the 5th district\u2019s \u201cBudapest\u2019s New Main Street\u201d project.. The lawyer\u2019s document notes that the tender\u2019s deadline is July 20, 2012, coinciding with the deadline for the 5th district\u2019s project. EU-Line did not apply for other tenders in the same time period, the government\u2019s procurement database shows.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer\u2019s letter stressed that it was \u201chighly important\u201d for EU-Line to participate in the tender because \u201cthe current economic crisis and the economic situation it generated are hitting the construction industry especially hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EU-Line, however, could escape these difficulties. After winning the nearly HUF 2.6 billion-project, it was awarded four more contracts by the 5th district, including a contract worth of HUF 2 billion (EUR 6.6 million) for maintenance work on cobblestone streets.<\/p>\n<p>Direkt36 asked the municipality to show the full documentation of all procurements won by EU-Line which could reveal how the company was able to defeat the other bidders. The district, however, did not respond to our repeated inquiries, violating the rules applying to public information procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s own website makes it clear that procurement decisions are made in several steps. First, a committee of council members decides what tenders will be announced. Then another committee evaluates the bids. Based on this evaluation, the first committee submits a proposal to the mayor, suggesting which company he should sign a contract with.<\/p>\n<p>EU-Line received every contract from the 5th district while it was led by mayor Antal Rog\u00e1n, whose term ended in October 2014. Some of EU-Line\u2019s contracts bear his stamp, others were signed by his deputy. Rog\u00e1n, who has been focused on his leading the governing party\u2019s parliamentary majority since his mayoral term ended, did not respond questions about EU-Line.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0municipality of the 5th district said in a statement that they only selected companies which complied with the necessary procurement requirements. \u201cWe tried to ensure fair competition in every procurement procedure we conducted\u201d, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, EU-Line has been awarded a high-value state contract in the 8th district as well. The local municipality concluded a procurement in December 2014, choosing a consortium that includes EU-Line, for a nearly HUF 1 billion (EUR 3.3 million) project to renovate and expand the district\u2019s health clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality, led by, M\u00e1t\u00e9 Kocsis, another prominent politician of the governing Fidesz party, said that all of their procurements were conducted lawfully. To the question whether they are familiar with the ownership of EU-Line, they said that this \u201chas no relevance in the evaluation process of a tender\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e1s B\u00f3dis claims that EU-Line has also won a tender not only in these two districts but also from the Municipality of Budapest, the capital. The official procurement database, however, does not list such a tender and the municipality said that they have no contract with EU-Line. B\u00f3dis\u2019s reaction to this was that he had given the information about the procurement \u201cto the best of his recollections.\u201d He suggested that EU-Line\u2019s management might be able to give more detailed information. \u201cMr. B\u00f3dis does not participate in the company\u2019s daily operations and therefore the information was not completely accurate,\u201d said Lajos Tilli, EU-Line\u2019s CEO in an email.<\/p>\n<h3>An investigation in the heart of Budapest<\/h3>\n<p>While EU-Line has been on the rise, the total revenues of J\u00e1nos Borzov\u00e1n\u2019s companies started to fall. He also quit several of them in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>One of his former companies, BAU Holding 2000, did a lot of construction work for the 5th district\u2019s municipality. From 2000 to 2010, even before Rog\u00e1n\u2019s term as mayor started in 2006, the company had been awarded contracts by the municipality worth more than HUF 6.5 billion (EUR 21.6 million) by the municipality. An analysis of procurement data shows that in this period the value of the contracts won by BAU Holding 2000 from the municipality was not exceeded by another company.<\/p>\n<p>One of BAU Holding 2000\u2019s last big contracts from the district was \u201cHeart of Budapest,\u201d a gigantic project renovating several streets and squares of downtown Budapest. Two tenders were announced for the project in 2009, one conducted by the 5th district municipality and the other by the Municipality of Budapest. Both tenders were won by a consortium of two companies. One of them was Bau Holding 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Although the projects were worth as much as HUF 8.4 billion (EUR 28 million), there were no other bidders. This raised some eyebrows in the European Union, which partly financed the projects, and two of its institutions launched investigations into the procurements.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission, as <a href=\"http:\/\/index.hu\/belfold\/budapest\/2012\/03\/06\/tarlost_es_rogant_egyutt_szivatja_az_eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first reported by Index in 2012<\/a>, had concerns about the tenders\u2019 conditions, which, according to the Commission, could only be met by the consortium including Bau Holding 2000. In January 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/vs.hu\/kozelet\/osszes\/az-eu-csalasellenes-nyomozoi-elmeszeltek-a-budapest-szivet-0123#!s2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vs.hu, another news portal<\/a>, reported that an investigation by OLAF, the EU\u2019s anti-fraud office, also found procurement violations with the Heart of Budapest project.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Commission and OLAF confirmed that they conducted investigations into the procurements but they declined to disclose details about their findings.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian Prosecutor\u2019s Office confirmed, however, that OLAF shared its report with them, and they decided to launch an investigation based on the document. They assigned it to the Department Against Corruption and Economic Crimes of the Metropolitan Police, which said that the investigation \u201cconcerns a company\u201d and it is being conducted against an \u201cunknown perpetrator\u201d with the suspicion of \u201cbudgetary abuse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The police declined to provide further details about the alleged crime. The notion of \u201cbudgetary abuse\u201d is vague (it can refer to any kind of misuse of public money). They did not answer questions about which company is concerned by the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>BAU Holding 2000, one of the companies working on Heart of Budapest, is not in operation any more. In 2010, it transformed into two companies, with one carrying forward the construction business. This was T\u00e9r Bau Holding, the company later working with EU-Line, owned by Borzov\u00e1n until 2014. Borzov\u00e1n told Direkt36 that he was not aware of any police investigation regarding the Heart of Budapest project. The EU institutions earlier investigating the project had not approached him or his companies either, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th district municipality also said that they have not been contacted by the police and they have no information about the investigation. When the concerns were first raised by the EU years ago, the 5th district rejected them, claiming that their procurements were conducted lawfully. One of their arguments was that when the renovation work \u2013 which started with the \u201cHeart of Budapest\u201d project &#8211; continued with another procurement in 2012, it was not awarded to the allegedly favoured BAU Holding\u2019s consortium but to other companies.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of that HUF 2.6 billion project was a consortium led by EU-Line. The 5th district\u2019s municipality, when asked whether they were aware of the links between EU-Line and the former owner of Bau Holding, said that \u201cas far as the company\u2019s owners are concerned, we emphasize that the municipality has no right to examine the ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Jimena Abad contributed reporting from Montevideo, Uruguay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collecting information on foreign companies was assisted by <a href=\"https:\/\/investigative-dashboard-prod.appspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigative Dashboard<\/a>. For Hungarian business records, we used the services of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceginfo.hu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00e9ginfo<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opten.hu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opten<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company received most of its contracts from Budapest 5th district, during the mayoral term of prominent government politician, Antal Rog\u00e1n. Direkt36&#8217;s investigation also revealed that the firm has several links to a businessman who had close business relationship with the district in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[440],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belvarosi-milliardok","author-petho-andras"],"authors":[{"term_id":440,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"petho-andras","display_name":"Andr\u00e1s Peth\u0151","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/av_Peto_Andras.png","url2x":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/av_Peto_Andras.png"},"description":"[:hu]Andr\u00e1s a Direkt36 egyik alap\u00edt\u00f3ja, szerkeszt\u0151je \u00e9s \u00fcgyvezet\u0151 igazgat\u00f3ja. Kor\u00e1bban az Origo vezet\u0151 szerkeszt\u0151je volt, miel\u0151tt a port\u00e1l r\u00e9sze lett a korm\u00e1ny propagandag\u00e9pezet\u00e9nek. Andr\u00e1s dolgozott a BBC World Service-n\u00e9l Londonban \u00e9s a Washington Post t\u00e9nyfelt\u00e1r\u00f3 rovat\u00e1n\u00e1l is. R\u00e9szt vett sz\u00e1mos nagy nemzetk\u00f6zi nyomoz\u00f3 projektben, k\u00f6zt\u00fck a Panama-iratok feldolgoz\u00e1s\u00e1ban. K\u00e9tszer is elnyerte a legjobbnak \u00edt\u00e9lt t\u00e9nyfelt\u00e1r\u00f3 cikkek szerz\u0151inek j\u00e1r\u00f3 Soma-d\u00edjat. T\u00f6bbsz\u00f6r tanult \u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjjal az Egyes\u00fclt \u00c1llamokban: 2008-ban a World Press Institute programj\u00e1ban, 2012-13-ban Humphrey-\u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjask\u00e9nt a Marylandi Egyetemen, 2019-20-ban pedig Nieman-\u00f6szt\u00f6nd\u00edjask\u00e9nt a Harvard Egyetemen. Andr\u00e1s t\u00f6bb magyar egyetemen is tan\u00edtott \u00fajs\u00e1g\u00edr\u00f3 kurzusokat.\r\n[:en]Andr\u00e1s is a co-founder, editor and executive director of Direkt36. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo before it had been transformed into the government\u2019s propaganda outlet. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers. He twice won the Soma Prize, the prestigious annual award dedicated to investigative journalism in Hungary. He was a World Press Institute fellow in 2008, a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012\/13, and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019\/20. 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