Putin "gave" Orban A Car Factory And A Palace In The Moscow Region?
- 30.03.2026, 20:03
Investigation.
Russian opposition journalist Rostislav Murzagulov declared that he has obtained a package of documents that reveal the mechanism of Putin's hidden "bribe" to the Hungarian prime minister. The price of the matter is a world-class car factory and a palace in the Moscow region, Ukrainian telegram channel "Herashchenko's Truth" pointed out.
The journalist is ready to hand over the originals of these documents to the relevant authorities and journalists in European countries.
What's at stake
In 2014, Orban inaugurated a Takata auto-parts plant in Hungary's Miskolc. The company promised a $1.5 billion investment in the Hungarian budget. For this, the prime minister allocated tens of millions of euros from the treasury.
But Takata was already in crisis at the time. Its airbags were exploding, scattering metal shards across car interiors and killing dozens of people. More than 100 million cars with Takata products in them worldwide were hit by the largest recall in auto industry history.
By 2018, Takata had gone bankrupt. All assets (20 plants worldwide) decided to be bought out by a group of non-public businessmen with ties to Hungary, among others. After the bankruptcy, Takata's assets were valued at $1.6 billion. Very cheap, considering that the company brought in $6-7 billion a year before the bankruptcy.
Russian structures
The problem for the new owners of Takata's facilities: where to put the products of the plant with a trail of dozens of deaths? The solution was found in Moscow. According to the documents at the disposal of the journalist, all the largest car plants of the Russian Federation have signed long-term contracts with the new owners of Takata.
According to the journalist, only a direct command from the Kremlin could force the entire Russian car industry to buy "killer" airbags. In fact, the Russian car industry fully paid for the purchase of the factory for a structure close to Orban.
The beneficiary of the scheme is Hungary's richest man Lorinc Mesaros ($3.5 billion). By sheer "coincidence" he is Orban's childhood friend. It was structures associated with Mesaros that participated in the construction of the Hungarian plant Takata in 2014, and later - in the buyout of all its assets.
The culmination of "gratitude"
According to Murzagulov's investigation, with the money received from the Russian scheme, a palace in the village of Greenfield near Moscow was purchased for Orban. The area of the mansion is 7,000 square meters, and the cost is $89 million.
Another detail is also typical: recently, representatives of the FSO removed the name of the owner of this object from the databases. This is an indirect confirmation that the elite real estate belongs not just to a businessman, but to a person whose data are subject to state secrecy.
What in the end
If everything is confirmed, it will turn out that the Hungarian budget with Orban's lobbying paid for the construction of the problematic plant, the Russian car industry under Putin's personal control ensured its redemption for Orban's "purse" and profitability. And the Hungarian prime minister also received a luxurious palace near Moscow.