ACELG is organising a screening of the film, ‘The Dynasty’, a Hungarian investigative documentary that examines how Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s family and inner circle amassed significant wealth during his rise to power.

Direkt36 spent almost a year making the documentary about the business activities of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s family. They highlight the enrichment of István Tiborcz, the prime minister’s son-in-law, and recall the role played by public procurement contracts that EU inspectors found to be seriously irregular.

They also show the state support he received for his empire of luxury properties, financial and logistics firms, now partly run by the prime minister’s eldest child, Ráhel Orbán.

The film tells the story of how this economic construction began back in the 1990s, and what role the long-standing alliance between Viktor Orbán and Lajos Simicska, a former ally of the prime minister, played in it.

The film will be followed by a roundtable discussion that will include András Pethő, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Direkt36, and Dutch journalist Jesse Pinster, Follow the Money and Evert de Vos, Chief Editor at De Groene Amsterdammer.