Based on the documents made public by the National Security Committee on Wednesday, it is clear that the central "brain" of the left-wing campaign was the DatAdat group. At this company, the old left guard met with money from abroad, as well as campaign technology. Based on the data that has just been made public, a key role has also been assigned to the far-left discrediting portal EzaLényeg, which was already deployed in the 2019 local government elections and is located near DK.
Although Péter Márki-Zay's movement received HUF 1.85 billion in several installments from overseas through the Action for Democracy led by Dávid Korányi, most of the money did not remain with them - this is clear from the materials made public on the National Security Committee's website the other day. More than HUF 1.4 billion moved from the Everyone's Hungary Movement to the accounts of the DatAdat group. Action for Democracy also directly financed the DatAdat group, marked by the name of ex-prime minister Gordon Bajnai, with HUF 148 million. In addition, however, a third financial channel was opened between the fund created by Dávid Korányi and the Bajnai Gordons' group of companies, and this led through Oraculum 2020 Kft.
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai walks with Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Security Dávid Korányi in front of the Capitol after his press conference on the second day of his visit to Washington, December 3, 2009. Source: MTI/László Beliczay
The latter is the business of a former socialist consultant, Zoltán Páva.
Oraculum operates the expiration portal called EzaLényeg, which tried to influence voters in 2019 and 2022 with campaign-like, paid ads.
Oraculum received HUF 1 billion from the Korányis, but 324 million of this was transferred to DatAdat.
In the financial affairs of DatAdat and Oraculum, in the cavalcade of references, someone is certain to see clearly, and this is none other than Józsefné Tóth, who works in a few hundred enthusiastic village called Szegi, and is listed as an accountant for both companies. As you may remember, the investigators of the National Tax and Customs Administration found the accounting records of DatAdat in the settlement of Borsod, but the financial documents of Oraculum are certainly also here (just a note in parentheses: the payment place for the members of the European Parliament of the DK is also in Szegi).
Bajnai and Márki-Zay's joint dinner in London. Image source: Facebook
Returning to the DatAdat-Oraculum-Action for Democracy triangle: their personnel are almost inextricably intertwined, so it is questionable to what extent they can be examined as independent actors at all. It is worth reviewing the personal network that moved large amounts of money this spring for the left-wing takeover.
Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai seems to be the central figure of the network. According to a leaked audio recording, an old friend of his, Gyula Gansperger, said that
Basically, I think that foreign forces and financiers are behind the movement of the entire opposition in Hungary. (…) Who are these forces? Right, one part of it is the Soros empire, let's put it that way. The other part, the big capital groups, Germany, the United States mainly, who would like to have influence here. I think Gordon is their man.
Back in January 2020, Magyar Nemzet wrote about Bajnai and his narrow circle of people, that he has control over significant voter databases and is helping the left with the latest campaign techniques, the former chief of staff of the two former prime ministers, Gordon Bajnai and Ferenc Gyurcsány. One of the owners of DatAdat Professional Kft., which was already established before the 2018 elections, is Ádám Ficsor, while Viktor Szigetvári works for the company as a manager. A guarantee of mutual reliability that
Szigetvári was a confidential colleague of both fallen prime ministers, and Ficsor not only led Gyurcsány's cabinet, but later also worked as Bajnai's secret service minister.
The importance of the project is indicated by the fact that Bajnai himself participated in it as a minority owner - through another company. If, for example, a citizen "chats" with Gyurcsány's wife on Facebook, his data falls into the hands of the Bajnai-Gyurcsány network.
A few months earlier, Magyar Nemzet also reported that a group of newspapers focused on local campaign topics had been launched under the title Ezalényeg.hu, which admittedly pushed the opposition's cart in the municipal election campaign. Between 2008 and 2010, the publisher of the website, Zoltán Páva Jr., invoiced the Office of the Prime Minister (MeH), which acts as a payment point, and the associated Medich-Technik Bt. received nearly HUF five million for its consulting activities in 2008. The paper already wrote at that time that the news portal could have serious financial resources, which was indicated by the Facebook ads and the large number of articles appearing on news aggregator sites.
Later, it was also revealed that the scandalous EzaLényeg is connected to the Bajnais in other ways as well. The editor-in-chief of the portal is András Zentai, who previously appeared in Bajnai's Együtt youth movement, and also worked alongside Bajnai as a journalist. Moreover, Zentai joined the then MSZP Prime Minister's Office in 2008, similar to the owner Zoltán Páva. EzaLényeg also uses the services of Datadat Kft.
Last, but not least
the "visible source of money", Dávid Korányi, is also an old Bajnai man.
He was chief adviser to the prime minister and then secretary of state responsible for foreign and security policy in his government. After his departure from Bajnai, like his boss, he continued at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he was a researcher at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations. He was one of the founders of "Együtt - A Korszakváldok Pártja" organized by the former left-wing prime minister, which ended permanently after the 2018 election failure, but they are also listed together in Soros's ECFR.
It is also no coincidence that Oraculum 2020 and DatAdat were able to do well financially with the left-wing campaign. Let's start with the former! By definition, Oraculum 2020 Kft. has not yet reported on this year, but in 2021, compared to previous years, it achieved sales revenue of HUF 667 million, but its pre-tax profit was only HUF 4 million. The number of employees of the company varied between 1-2 people.
The foreign legs of the DatAdat group seem particularly successful. While the main domestic company, DatAdat Professional Kft., in 2021, with a sales revenue of 2 billion, was also only able to make a pre-tax profit of around HUF 4 million, the Estonian company of the Datadat group, DatAdat OÜ, achieved a serious record result in the first quarter of 2022. According to the data of the Estonian company information site teatmik.ee, the company registered in March 2019 had a taxable turnover of 2,074,816 euros between January and March of this year, i.e. it collected a good three quarters of a billion forints.
Gordon Bajnai and Viktor Szigetvár
The company represented by Ádám Ficsor and Viktor Szigetvári reached its previous record - not surprisingly - during the autumn 2021 primary election, when it achieved a taxable turnover of more than 1.1 million euros in three months. The second quarter of 2022 was not bad either, as the taxable turnover of the Estonian DatAdat was 972 thousand euros. So we can see that
the development of the Hungarian election cycle was strongly related to the success of the business in Estonia.
What remained unchanged after the elections was the number of employees, which has remained zero since the beginning.
In summary, the documents of the National Security Committee confirmed the suspicions of many: Gordon Bajnai appears to be the most important background figure in the left's 2022 campaign. A person strongly connected to him, Dávid Korányi, "raised" the money overseas, and a good part of the "collected" funds went to the company operating in his partial ownership. The same company organized the campaign of the left-liberal coalition, collected data, and acted as a consultant. Finally, two actors who have long been associated with the Bajnais appear at EzaLényeg, which did the "dirty work", the attack on Fidesz candidates supported by targeted ads, and which - to close the circle - also collected data for Bajnai.
Source: origo.hu
In our opening picture: Gordon Bajnai in 2014./Illustration
