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In April 2015, Istv\u00e1n Tiborcz, the son-in-law of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, sold those of his companies that participated in public procurements and since then he has apparently made an effort to stay away from state projects.<\/p>\n
Recently, however, he has taken a small step backwards.<\/p>\n
In August, he became a co-owner in a firm belonging to the WHB group, which won several big state tenders in recent years, records show.<\/p>\n
The firm now co-owned by Tiborcz is called WHB Ingatlan, and it does not have direct involvement in projects funded by taxpayers\u2019 money. The firm, according to Csaba T\u00f3th, its general manager, is dealing with building and selling private properties.<\/p>\n
This has not been the first business transaction between Attila Pa\u00e1r, the majority owner of WHB group, and Tiborcz. When in 2015 Orb\u00e1n\u2019s son-in-law sold his shares in Elios, the energy company that won several state contracts under controversial circumstances, the buyer was one of Pa\u00e1r\u2019s companies.<\/p>\n
Tiborcz did not respond to our questions sent by e-mail.<\/p>\n
Last year, Direkt36 published several articles about the public lighting procurements won by Elios<\/a>. Last June, we uncovered that the lamps used in Elios\u2019s projects were outstandingly expensive<\/a>. Earlier, we revealed that Elios could win several tenders without facing any competition because the conditions were tailored to the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months ago, Istv\u00e1n Tiborcz became a co-owner in a firm belonging to the WHB group, which won several big state tenders in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-444.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[523],"class_list":["post-9612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-az-orban-csalad-uzletei","author-cap-anita"],"authors":[{"term_id":523,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-anita","display_name":"Anita","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direkt36.exot.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}