In a small village near Tokaj called Szegi, the employees of the National Tax and Customs Administration found the DatAdat bookkeeping. According to Magyar Nemzet, the investigators arrived at the small rural settlement after finding no trace of the activities of Gordon Bajnai et al.'s company either at the company's official headquarters or at its registered accountant. For now, it is a mystery how and why the papers of DatAdat Professional Kft. ended up in Borsod.

Memorably, the group of companies marked by the names of Gordon Bajnai and his former secret minister, Ádám Ficsor, recently denied the validity of the Magyar Nemzet's report that NAV had conducted a house search at the company, alleging untruths. The tax authority was forced to respond to this in a statement, in which they announced that a house search had indeed taken place on September 27. The communiqué also revealed that DatAdat, in violation of the law, did not operate at its registered headquarters - the apartment owned by Ádám Ficsor, the former socialist minister of the secret service. What's more, the company's managers refused to tell the company's actual place of business over the phone, and NAV could not view the documents at DatAdat's official accountant either, because there was no accounting office at the given address.

The investigation is taking place due to the suspicion of budget fraud due to the suspicious activities of the Bajnai Gordon group of companies.

"In the end, the investigators managed to seize a significant part of the necessary documents from the undeclared office of the individual entrepreneur doing the bookkeeping," read the announcement of NAV. According to the newspaper's information, this office, which was not reported by DatAdat, is located in the hidden small town of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, where tax authorities conducted a search again last week. All of this is also surprising because in a statement released at the start of this year's election campaign, the Bajnais stated:

"We are proud that over the past 6 years we have managed to build an internationally successful company: the company has grown from a Hungarian small business to one of Europe's leading campaign technology companies in a short period of time."

It is rather interesting that, if DatAdat can be considered a truly significant international enterprise, why they hide their data in this way instead of entrusting their management to a serious, well-known auditing company.

The strangeness can be explained by the fact that, according to the tax authority's suspicion, DatAdat Professional Kft. illegally reduced its payable tax in 2020, and the company made an untrue statement in its tax return, which could have caused a financial loss to the budget.

As is well known, in the 2022 campaign, the left was able to reach approximately one million voters with phone calls and text messages, but suspicions arose that the campaign was carried out using stolen databases, as government sympathizers also received calls from the Márki-Zays, who were certainly not given to them that's their phone number. After the incident, suspicion shifted to DatData, as the left-wing prime minister candidate himself admitted that the Bajnais' company worked on his campaign. DatAdat vehemently denied that it was involved in the case, which is already being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NNI).

Since then, it has also been revealed that the left's campaign was financed by American sources of unknown origin, through an organization called Action for Democracy, whose director is Dávid Korányi, who was previously Gordon Bajnai's chief adviser and later his secretary of state for foreign and security policy. Korányi recently became Gergely Karácsony's chief adviser, until the mayor revoked his mandate after it became embarrassing that the man, who lives in luxurious conditions in New York, works "remotely".

Today we know that the Korányis managed to channel almost two billion forints into the 2022 campaign of the left, and from this amount they also paid the DatData of Péter Bajnai and his colleagues Márky-Zay. All of this raises the suspicion of illegal campaign financing and also represents a significant national security risk.

It is also well known that it is possible that this year was not the first time that the left used American money to campaign in Hungary. Korányi was already able to obtain funds for the 2019 municipal elections for Gergely Karácsony's 99 movement, which operates with money of unknown origin. And DatAdat already appeared behind the campaign of the left, about which, according to the previous article of the Index, the socialist ex-Secrets Minister Ádám Ficsor said: "We worked in 12 campaigns in that election, and 12 of them mayors won. It was a big win.”

The news related to the DatData case is also that a few days ago Fidesz member of parliament Gyula Budai filed an addendum to the report in connection with the latest developments in the DatData scandal and the American funds given to the opposition. Budai appealed to the authorities again because DatAdat pocketed HUF two billion in the twelve months before the election, but according to the company's own report, almost all of their income quickly disappeared, as HUF 1.8 billion was spent on so-called sold (intermediate) services. .

Source: Hungarian Nation

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