The Ministry of Culture and Innovation (KIM), led by Balázs Hankó, bought plastic motorbikes from Gyula Balásy’s companies for around HUF 15,000 each, which can be bought in the store for HUF 5-6,000, wrote the Transparentafter the Ministry of Social and Family Affairs of the Tisza government responded to the newspaper’s data request from last November, which was still addressed to KIM.
As the We also wrote it on telexFidesz parliamentarians and candidate candidates campaigned with the bunny motorbikes with the “family-friendly” sticker, which the Ministry of Culture and Innovation bought with public funds. Zsófia Koncz, KIM’s state secretary responsible for families, announced in November last year that, as part of the “Family-friendly Hungary” program, plastic scooters will be brought to all rural nurseries. The paper then tried to find out, among other things, exactly how much state money the ministry spent on the bunny motorbikes, how many motorbikes there were, and exactly which settlements they were taken to.
Ministry of Hanko, which is the Before the elections, he also splashed out a lot of money on speakers who are dear to Fideszonly stated that “the devices will reach nearly 55,000 children” and that the contract is up in the Electronic Public Procurement System. Átlátszó sought out the contract for the ministry’s family-friendly program, which it was about a net HUF 2.8 billion budgetthe agreement was signed by KIM with Gyula Balásy’s New Land Media Kft. and Lounge Design Kft. on November 18, 2025.
Since KIM did not respond to the paper’s data request, a complaint was filed against it with the National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority (NAIH). A few days ago, Átlátszó received a response from KIM’s legal successor, the Ministry of Social and Family Affairs.
This revealed that KIM bought a total of 12,000 small motorbikes from Gyula Balásy’s companies for a net price of HUF 185.3 million, and another HUF 3 million was needed to sticker the vehicles.
This means that more than 15,000 forints of public money were paid to the Balásy companies for one piece, which is a threefold overpricing, since such a small engine in most places for roughly HUF 5-6 thousand available.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Family also wrote to the paper how many plastic scooters were distributed by the Fidesz government: the most toy vehicles went to the counties of Pest (1,611), Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (664) and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (653), while the fewest went to Nógrád (141), Tolna (164) and Zala (216). db) was distributed in the county.
Gyula Balásy at the beginning of May he talked about it in a memorable interview with Kontrollthat he did not want to leave the country and announced that he would hand over his assets to the state. Shortly after the interview, chaotic conditions prevailed at the companies of the Lounge group. At the end of May, a small company working on the BL final and a bunch of state events got into troubleas Lounge Event accounts have been blocked. The government finally decided he pays the subcontractors so that the match can go down properly. A few days later, the Special Tax and Customs Directorate of NAV filed against the company also started executionearlier so did New Land Media and Lounge Design.
