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The Offer Viktor Orban Couldn't Refuse
When Hungarians vote tomorrow, they should know that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was on the take from the same Russian mobsters who were laundering millions through Donald Trump's real estate.
Now that J. D. Vance has returned from Budapest where he was campaigning for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Vance’s favored candidate is facing new allegations that he and associates have been backed by a highly suspect benefactor.
More specifically, according to a report earlier this week in The Insider, both Orbán himself and his Interior Minister, Sándor Pintér, allegedly received “large sums of cash” from a key player in the Russian Mafia who also played an important role in the ascent of Donald Trump.
The Mafioso in question is Semion Mogilevich, a leading figure in the Solntsevskaya Bratva, the powerful Russian crime syndicate, who graced the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list for many years and has been called “the most dangerous mobster in the world.”
The new report about Mogilevich is not the first linking him to Orbán. In 2014, video host Seva Kaplan and his guest, Leonid Roytman, who allegedly has had ties to the Solntsevskaya Bratva, first discussed Orbán’s ties to the Russian Mafia in a YouTube video. Russian journalist Anastasia Kirilenko later wrote about them for The Insider, as I did in House of Trump, House of Putin.
https://craigunger.substack.com/p/the-offer-viktor-orban-couldnt-refuse
Now that J. D. Vance has returned from Budapest where he was campaigning for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Vance’s favored candidate is facing new allegations that he and associates have been backed by a highly suspect benefactor.
More specifically, according to a report earlier this week in The Insider, both Orbán himself and his Interior Minister, Sándor Pintér, allegedly received “large sums of cash” from a key player in the Russian Mafia who also played an important role in the ascent of Donald Trump.
The Mafioso in question is Semion Mogilevich, a leading figure in the Solntsevskaya Bratva, the powerful Russian crime syndicate, who graced the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list for many years and has been called “the most dangerous mobster in the world.”
The new report about Mogilevich is not the first linking him to Orbán. In 2014, video host Seva Kaplan and his guest, Leonid Roytman, who allegedly has had ties to the Solntsevskaya Bratva, first discussed Orbán’s ties to the Russian Mafia in a YouTube video. Russian journalist Anastasia Kirilenko later wrote about them for The Insider, as I did in House of Trump, House of Putin.
https://craigunger.substack.com/p/the-offer-viktor-orban-couldnt-refuse
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