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Ex-Gang Member Links Orbán to Russian Mafia Boss Mogilevich, Vows to Confess After Election

A former Ukrainian-born Hungarian gang member, László Kovács, has accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of accepting ‘large sums of cash’ from Ukrainian-born Russian underground ‘top boss’ Semion Mogilevich, allegedly to finance his 1998 election campaign. According to a conversation with Kovács, published by Latvia-based investigative outlet The Insider on 7 April, he said he sometimes worked as a courier for Mogilevich—who he knew thro…

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Viktor Orbán is a criminal for whom I carried suitcases of money, claims former Budapest mafia member László Kovács. He worked for one of the most influential Hungarian mafia bosses, Igor Korol, who was connected to the head of the Russian underworld, Semyon Mogilevich. It was he who financed Viktor Orbán's election campaign with millions of dollars. He served as prime minister from 1998 to 2002, returning to power in 2010.

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In 1990, Hungarian culture László Kovács worked for Igor Korol, one of the most influential interlopies in Budapest. In its turn, the Korol report of the head of the interlope world in Hungary, Russian Semion Moghilevici. According to Kovács...

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Hungary's current prime minister received huge campaign contributions from gangsters. In the 1990s, Hungary's current prime minister, Viktor Orbán, had ties to the Budapest criminal underworld, which financed his campaign, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing The Insider. Read also: Orbán declared his willingness to become Putin's "mouse" who helps the "lion." Former gangster László Kovács worked in the 1990s for Igor Korol, the leader of a powerful…

Hungarian Prime Minister Orban's shocking ties with the mafia in the 1990s were revealed by an exbandit - read details in the material tsn.ua (news 1+1)

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theins.press broke the news in on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.
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