A supervisory board member of the Hungarian branch of the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank may be behind the Partizán led by Márton Gulyás - this is what he writes in the latest analysis of the Firewall Group.
The portal wrote about Partizán's management that no one knows exactly how and from where the left-wing YouTube channel started, but it is certain that many tens of millions of forints were needed for Márton Gulyás to rent a place suitable for the studio, and already in the beginning pay a staff of nearly twenty people.
"Although Gulyás talks about transparency, he did not actually reveal anything about who supported the launch of the channel from the beginning. We have now come across an interesting document: the name of Katalin Igaz, the founder of the Partizán System Critics Foundation, who in 2018 could be read as an "imported agitator" of Péter Márki-Zay, wrote the Firewall Group.
The woman who provided the start-up capital on paper is a banker and, in addition, a committed civil activist, member of the supervisory board of the domestic Soros-style rights protection organization, TASZ.
The Firewall Group points out that the Partizán System Critic Foundation's reports do not reveal anything about exactly what kind of foreign support the YouTube channel received, but it is a fact that certain support can be inferred from the posts they publish on Facebook.
"For example, this is how the public found out that the National Endowment for Democracy supported their country-traveling truck in the campaign, but another post revealed the support of the German Marshall Fund, but these NGOs could not be found in the reports," reads the portal's analysis.
The Firewall Group recalled Partizán's previous reports: according to a 2020 document, it cost Gulyás only three million forints to create the YouTube channel.
According to the report, the viewers gave them a total of 5.1 million in support. "The most beautiful thing is that not a single HUF of personal expenditure is indicated in the report, and there were not even any employees at Partizán on paper this year. In other words, according to them, every member of the nearly twenty-strong staff worked for fun in 2020," wrote the Tűzfal group, according to which the next year's 2021 report already spoke of a more realistic sales revenue of 272 million forints, and then in 2022 a revenue of 485 million forints realized by the foundation.
"Of course, we didn't find in any of the documents where they got this money from. So much for transparency," the portal emphasized.
"However, something has now been revealed about the beginnings of Partizan. Moreover, the identity of the founder, which has been well-hidden until now. The founder was revealed from a document published on the court's website, namely a document about the change of the foundation's representative. To be clear: the person of the founder is also important in the case of the foundation, since he must provide the initial capital of the foundation. At least on paper anyway. And in this case, she is none other than Katalin Igaz".
The portal notes that Katalin Igaz is a banker who, according to her Linkedin page, worked most at Citybank, but was previously deputy CEO at Postabank, which ended badly.
According to Linkedin, the lady is currently a supervisory board member of the Hungarian branch of the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank.
"From his life path, it turned out that he went to university at Corvinus and then at Soros's CEU. But we can find it among the members of the supervisory board of the Society for Freedom Rights, and among several other important banking professionals. The website revealed that he is also the founder of several NGOs, such as Menők, i.e. the Association of the Hungarian European Women's Forum and the Civils for Democracy association. But nothing proves how committed Igaz is to the left, than the fact that during the 2018 parliamentary election campaign, he campaigned against Viktor Orbán through the Soros mega-organization called Avaaz, which was harmed by a citizen who filed a complaint," the portal said.
Cover photo: Márton Gulyás
Source: Partizán
