For a long time, Telex inquired at the Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office about the progress of the investigation into the case involving Viktor Orbán’s younger brother, Áron Orbán, which was revealed in detail by Telex in June 2025, but we were always told that the investigation is ongoing. On Wednesday, however, the Central Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement, which reveals that there are four suspects in the case, two of whom have been detained. Although the announcement does not include names, it can be deduced who the suspects are. Áron Orbán is not among them, but one of his close associates and friends is.
The “They did business with the prime minister’s younger brother. You know how much it is and how many meters to where” you can read our article here. The investigation was not rushed: we know that the authorities already had the evidence when Telex revealed the case.
What did the Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office say?
In order to obtain additional evidence and apprehend the perpetrators, the Prosecutor General’s Office carried out coordinated procedural actions at four locations on Wednesday, during which it conducted searches and seizures, and then questioned four persons as suspects, the Central Investigative General Prosecutor’s Office announced.
At the request of the prosecutor’s office, the patrols of the Emergency Police and the staff of the National Investigation Bureau also participated in the execution of the criminal operation.
According to the essence of the well-founded suspicion, in April 2023, the detained man in his 60s claimed to a contractor involved in the recruitment of Nepali workers that he was receiving orders from political circles and that he would need tens of thousands of workers within 1-2 years. He also referred to the fact that, thanks to his trusted relationships with influential officials, he can quickly and smoothly arrange residence permits for employment purposes. These allegations were confirmed to the entrepreneur by the man’s two suspects.
The entrepreneur then concluded a contract with a company belonging to the man’s interests – whose representative is the other detained suspect – and transferred an advance of 17,000 euros to arrange the residence permits of third-country workers as soon as possible.
In the end, the visa applications of the Asian workers recruited by the contractor were rejected, and the amount unjustifiably received was treated as the three suspects’ own, and distributed among themselves.
The fourth suspect in the case is an acquaintance of the man’s executive whose company submitted the visa applications. “In this criminal way, the suspect also arranged for his labor hire company to be registered as a privileged, qualified employer,” the statement reads. On Wednesday, the Central Investigative Prosecutor General’s Office ordered the detention of two persons, while the other two suspects remain at large.
How is Orbán’s brother connected to this case?
In the case, a complaint against the (business) partners of Áron Orbán was filed by a private individual, who, according to him, was deceived by the people mentioned in his complaint. They promised him that they would get work visas and jobs in Hungary for the Nepalese recruited by him, and Viktor Orbán’s younger brother, Áron Orbán, was there to help them. The man paid, but in the end none of the Nepalese he recruited received visas.
Earlier, however, Telex obtained evidence that supports that Áron Orbán and his company called Multi Shoot not only had a relationship with the persons concerned, but also actively contributed to the acquisition of visas. We also found out that the man who filed the report also attached evidence to the report. This explains why an investigation was eventually launched.
However, the investigation was already moving at a snail’s pace when the transactions were explored in detail. In the meantime, the whistleblower died.
By the way, the case erupted when in October 2024 – that is, long after the whistleblower had been questioned as a witness at the prosecution – an audio recording was leakedon which the Prime Minister’s brother talks to Dávid Héjj, one of Viktor Orbán’s managers, in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office.
The audio recording revealed that Áron Orbán and his then-unknown associates were interested in handling visa matters. Later we managed to identify Áron Orbán’s business partners, but it still took months to uncover other important players in the case and the relationship between them. We found out relatively quickly that many of them are due to visa applications that have been blocked in the meantime he became angry Áron Orbán’s companions, who demanded their money back from them.
We also managed to obtain a package containing thousands of files, in which we found secretly recorded audio recordings, internal correspondence, contracts, complete tables, databases, documents and names of foreigners to be brought into the country. The files include fictitious employment contracts, employment application documents submitted by Vietnamese, Indian, Nepali, Pakistani, Turkish, Kurdish, Arab and other nationalities and ethnicities, social networks and much more. It was then that we also found evidence that a complaint had been filed in the case, and that the whistleblower had handed over evidence to the investigating prosecutors.
We also found the message that Áron Orbán’s partner wrote to one of his disgruntled Iranian partners, who allegedly threatened him. The message read: “They did business with the prime minister’s younger brother. You know how much it is and how many meters to where.”
In the meantime, we found out that another man, the assistant of Áron Orbán’s partner, also filed a complaint. In addition, he revealed in his report that he forged documents on the instructions of an entrepreneur considered to be one of the key figures of the company in order to allow foreigners to enter the country. In his complaint, among other things, he mentioned a false contract based on which some of the people who came to Hungary did not get a job, while others simply left as illegal migrants to other EU countries.
The documents obtained by Telex proved that the role of Áron Orbán’s company, Multi Shoot, in the work process was to book appointments for employees at foreign missions.
