Reuters: Hungarian police have said that they are investigating the companies of one of the country’s top media players who won lucrative contracts under Viktor Orban’s outgoing government, on suspicion of misappropriation of funds and money laundering.
The police statement late on Tuesday came after Gyula Balasy, the owner of several top media companies that have designed government campaigns for Orban for over a decade, said he offered to hand over his firms and some of his investments to the state as the new government of Peter Magyar takes over…