More than 6 billion forints in cash found in Seszták investigation
Authorities found more than 6 billion forints in cash hidden at several locations in the criminal investigation involving former minister Miklós Seszták. Political disputes continued over Magyar Péter, including a complaint filed against him and calls for his appearance before a parliamentary committee. Internationally, Russia’s reported demands in peace talks and a prolonged Microsoft outage also drew attention.
- Authorities publish images of the discovery of Seszták’s hidden billions in cash — Authorities found more than 6 billion forints in cash during searches on November 12–13 in the criminal case involving Miklós Seszták and deposited it with the Hungarian State Treasury; the former minister has been detained since late September on suspicion of accepting 12.6 billion forints in bribes in a case linked to Volánbusz.
Original (Hungarian): Itt van az év legerősebb kontentje: az NVVH közzétette a Seszták Miklós eldugott készpénzmilliárdjainak megtalálásáról készült képeket - Authorities literally dug up Seszták’s billions in cash, hidden in forests, warehouses and safes — More than 6 billion forints in cash was found hidden in forests, buildings and a safe in the investigation involving Miklós Seszták, who is suspected of accepting 12.6 billion forints in bribes in a Volánbusz-related case and has been detained since September.
Original (Hungarian): Az NVVH szó szerint előásta Seszták Miklós készpénzben tartott milliárdjait, a KDNP-s politikus erdőkben, raktárakban, félreeső széfekben rejtette el a pénzt - The biggest prisoner exchange of the war may be ahead, but Putin wants a new Yalta — Russia and Ukraine are preparing what could be the largest prisoner exchange since the war began in 2022, but have no ceasefire or peace agreement, while Moscow is seeking to use talks to renegotiate Europe’s security order.
Original (Hungarian): A háború legnagyobb fogolycseréje jöhet, de Putyin új Jaltát akar - Russia reportedly demands that Finland leave NATO in exchange for peace — According to Bild, Russian negotiators are demanding Finland leave NATO and that the alliance close its Scandinavian bases, alongside conditions concerning occupied Ukrainian territory and Ukraine’s military alliances; Finland’s defence minister called questioning the country’s NATO membership outrageous.
Original (Hungarian): Az oroszok a békéért cserébe azt követelik, hogy Finnország lépjen ki a NATO-ból - Ministry to file a complaint over suspected spending by the Tempus Public Foundation — The Ministry of Education and Children’s Affairs said it will file a complaint after an audit found more than 1.1 billion forints in questionable spending by the Tempus Public Foundation, including a costly gala, a Dubai folk-dance performance and a Hungarian-Kazakh music video.
Original (Hungarian): Magyar–kazah videóklip, túlárazott gálaest, dubaji néptánc – feljelentést tesz a minisztérium a Tempus Közalapítvány gyanús költései miatt - Former justice ministers questioned by enforcement-abuse committee — Three former justice ministers told a committee investigating enforcement abuses that they had not known about the problems or that major reforms had taken place before their time, while Trócsányi László said he selected Völner Pál after a Google search and Navracsics Tibor and Tuzson Bence challenged aspects of the committee’s work.
Original (Hungarian): Végrehajtási vizsgálóbizottság: Navracsics az SZMSZ mögé bújt, Trócsányi a Google-ön találta meg Völnert, Tuzson pedig nem is értette pontosan, mit keres ott - Former Fidesz MP files complaint against Magyar Péter — Ékes Ilona filed a complaint against Magyar Péter on suspicion of blackmail and domestic violence, citing Varga Judit’s claims and press reports and alleging that he threatened his former wife with a secretly recorded audio file during their divorce and property settlement.
Original (Hungarian): Egy volt fideszes képviselő feljelentette Magyar Pétert - Fidesz parliamentary group hits back, seeks to question Magyar Péter — The Fidesz parliamentary group wants Magyar Péter questioned by the committee investigating enforcement cases and seeks documents from proceedings he initiated, while also urging Toroczkai László to summon the prime minister over a recording it says relates to the Völner–Schadl case.
Original (Hungarian): A Fidesz-frakció visszacsap: Magyar Péter meghallgatását kezdeményezik - Magyar Péter says head of the Historical Archives cannot remain after error — Magyar Péter said Cseh Gergő Bendegúz should leave his post after a technical error wrongly listed 161 people as agents, and also discussed a possible meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Transcarpathia and the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
Original (Hungarian): Magyar Péter szerint az ÁBTL vezetője nem maradhat a levéltár élén a hiba után - New chief prosecutor orders internal review of gold convoy case — Chief Prosecutor Fejes Péter ordered an internal review of the gold convoy case, acknowledged that mistakes had been made and described the incident as isolated rather than systemic, while citing staffing and organizational problems at the prosecution service.
Original (Hungarian): Belső vizsgálatot rendelt el az új legfőbb ügyész az aranykonvoj-ügy miatt - Car bomb explodes in Moscow, targeting Ukrainian ex-official living in Russia — A car bomb in southern Moscow seriously injured Serhiy Zavorotny, a former press secretary to ex-Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov, and Russian authorities opened a criminal investigation while Kyiv had not commented.
Original (Hungarian): Autóba rejtett pokolgép robbant Moszkvában, Oroszországban élő exukrán propagandista volt a célpont - North Korean hackers stole $400 million in cryptocurrency using fake video calls — US authorities say North Korean hackers used the FaceStealer scam to steal more than $400 million in cryptocurrency and deceive over 900 people in 18 months, posing as acquaintances in fake video calls and using malware links to target mainly crypto and web3 workers.
Original (Hungarian): Észak-koreai hackerek 400 millió dollárnyi kriptovalutát loptak el kamu videóhívásokkal - Egypt places a Hungarian church on its terror list — Egypt added the Hungarian Muslim Church and 34 other European organizations to its terror list without giving a known explanation, while the church called the decision unfounded and denied organizational or financial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Original (Hungarian): Magyarországi egyházat tett terrorlistára Egyiptom - Matolcsy György cited work duties when seeking a diplomatic passport for his son — Matolcsy Ádám held a diplomatic passport for nearly six years after his father, Matolcsy György, requested one from the foreign ministry, and an arrest warrant has been in force for Ádám since October 21 as authorities believe he may be abroad.
Original (Hungarian): Matolcsy György munkaköri feladatokra hivatkozva kért diplomata-útlevelet Matolcsy Ádámnak - Police investigate suspected disorderly conduct after Bűnvadászok member sprays 15-year-old — Police are investigating after Tóth Norbert, a member of Bűnvadászok, sprayed a 15-year-old boy with pepper spray in Gyömrő, with one person questioned as a suspect; the accounts of Tóth and the boy’s mother differ, and about 100 members of Betyársereg later went to Tóth’s home.
Original (Hungarian): Garázdaság gyanújával nyomoz a rendőrség, miután a Bűnvadászok gyömrői tagja gázspray-vel fújt le egy 15 éves fiatalt - Foreign woman living in Budapest arrested after telling AI chatbot she would kill — Following an FBI tip, Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation arrested a 22-year-old foreign woman who allegedly told an AI chatbot she would stab an acquaintance and attack the person’s family, but prosecutors decided she could be released.
Original (Hungarian): Elfogták a Budapesten élő külföldi nőt, aki mesterséges intelligenciával chatelt arról, hogy ölni fog - Partizán to cut nearly a quarter of its staff; editor-in-chief to step down — Partizán plans to lay off nearly 20 of its 72 staff members as it continues with a smaller newsroom, and editor-in-chief Földiák Vince will resign at year’s end after disagreements over the changes but remain at the outlet as a journalist.
Original (Hungarian): A csapat negyedét elküldik a Partizántól, az év végével a főszerkesztő is lemond - Twenty-seven candidates apply to lead public media company — Twenty-seven people, including journalist Papp Réka Kinga and former public-media union leader Nagy Navarro Balázs, are seeking to lead Magyar Rádió és Televízió Nonprofit Zrt., with a public vote to choose the winner from two finalists.
Original (Hungarian): Indul a casting a közmédia vezetéséért: Papp Réka Kinga és az egykori éhségsztrájkoló szakszervezetis Nagy Navarro Balázs is bejelentkezett - After unforced errors, a remarkable damage-control effort: Magyar Péter’s turbulent week — After losing control of events during a week of unexpected turns, Magyar Péter regained it through crisis management, though the episode was a serious political test and the article says Tisza’s popularity probably did not fall.
Original (Hungarian): Ki nem kényszerített hibák után bravúros tűzoltás – Magyar Péter hektikus hete - Orbán Áron actively sought cooperation with Szijjártó’s foreign ministry — Velkey György said Orbán Áron offered cooperation to Szijjártó Péter in autumn 2023, including decision-making support as a chief adviser, while foreign ministry records include earlier meeting requests and a personal meeting in 2016.
Original (Hungarian): Orbán Áron „Vezérigazgató” a Szijjártó-féle külüggyel is aktívan kereste az együttműködést - Orbán Áron receives a visit: his parents go to prison, while his brother still does not — Orbán Áron was detained on suspicion of human trafficking, and while his brother Orbán Viktor said he would not visit him in prison, their parents did, with Szabó Bálint filming the visit and helping them enter.
Original (Hungarian): Orbán Áron pakkot kapott: a volt miniszterelnök továbbra se látogatja az öccsét a börtönben, de a szülei bementek hozzá - Kiss László fires a Facebook broadside at Orbán Viktor — Óbuda mayor Kiss László responded on Facebook to Orbán Viktor’s statement that media attention was why he would not visit his detained brother, while noting that Kiss himself spent nine months in pretrial detention over corruption allegations.
Original (Hungarian): Kiss Bezzegazéntestvérem László facebookos atombombát dobott le Orbán Viktorra - Seszták Miklós owes every Hungarian at least two cans of beer — More than 6.4 billion forints in cash was found, partly buried or hidden in buildings, in the criminal case involving Seszták Miklós, an amount the article equates to about 680 forints per person, or the price of two cans of beer.
Original (Hungarian): Seszták Miklós minden magyarnak jön minimum 2 doboz sörrel - Baka returned wealth declaration law, saying it could further undermine public trust — President Baka András referred an amendment on protecting state assets to the Constitutional Court, saying that although he supports scrutiny of politicians’ wealth, the rules could harm legal certainty, data protection and public trust.
Original (Hungarian): Baka azért is dobta vissza a vagyonosodási törvényt, mert szerinte ahelyett, hogy erősítené a közbizalmat, akár tovább is ronthatja azt - Microsoft services still not fully restored after 24 hours — More than a day after an outage began on Thursday evening, Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot remained affected, along with government agencies in several countries and OpenAI and Anthropic, while the company said the disruption was caused by an internal problem rather than a cyberattack.
Original (Hungarian): 24 óra után sem álltak helyre a Microsoft szolgáltatásai - Microsoft services also disrupted in Europe — A Microsoft outage affecting Outlook, Teams and Copilot spread from the United States and Asia to Europe, with the company citing server problems and overload and reporting some improvement after an update while Microsoft 365 errors continued.
Original (Hungarian): Már Európában is akadoznak a Microsoft szolgáltatásai - Tinder fined €11 million for GDPR violations — Ireland’s data protection authority fined Match Group, which owns Tinder, €11 million, saying the app’s “Download My Data” feature does not let users access all the data stored about them.
Original (Hungarian): 11 millió euróra büntették a Tindert a GDPR-szabályok megsértése miatt - Visually impaired driver hits blind father and daughter in Debrecen — A visually impaired driver struck blind Babik Tamás and his sighted 10-year-old daughter at a pedestrian crossing in Debrecen, injuring both, and police are investigating whether the driver had a valid licence and medical clearance.
Original (Hungarian): Gyengénlátó sofőr gázolta el a vak apát és a kislányát Debrecenben - Strong winds and heavy rain cause widespread damage — Rain and strong winds since Thursday brought down trees, flooded underpasses and basements and disrupted travel across Hungary, while emergency crews rescued motorists, pumped out water and cleared roads.
Original (Hungarian): Sok mindent meggyötör a nagy szél és a nagy eső - A month’s worth of rain falls in Balassagyarmat in 24 hours — Cyclone Charles brought 20–50 millimetres of rain to much of the country in 24 hours, including 67 millimetres in Balassagyarmat and 60 in Solt, with drier weather expected over the weekend before more heavy rain from Monday.
Original (Hungarian): 24 óra alatt egyhavi eső esett Balassagyarmaton, Budapest is kapott rendesen - Győr railway line disrupted after overhead wire breaks — A broken overhead wire temporarily halted trains between Bicske and Tatabánya on the Győr main line, forcing passengers onto replacement buses, and although the fault was repaired, trains continued to use only one track between Bicske and Herceghalom.
Original (Hungarian): Feszültségmentes péntek 13 a MÁV-nál: elesett a győri fővonal, fennakadások Bicske és Tatabánya között - BKV schedules maintenance works to brighten Budapest’s grey November — BKV will carry out track maintenance in November at several Budapest locations, including Kosztolányi Dezső Square, Népszínház Street, the route of tram 41, Liberty Bridge and later the cog railway, with temporary traffic restrictions.
Original (Hungarian): A BKV felújításokkal dobja fel az utasok kedvét a novemberi szürkeségben - Placebo concert cancelled after medication fails to help — Placebo cancelled its Budapest concert scheduled for Friday because of Brian Molko’s prolonged vocal-cord inflammation, after also cancelling shows in Munich and Vienna in recent days.
Original (Hungarian): Nem hatott a gyógyszer, elmarad a Placebo - Famous MMA fighters jailed for Abu Dhabi hotel-lobby brawl — Eight participants in a ten-person fight at an Abu Dhabi hotel were sentenced to six months in prison, deportation and fines of 300,000 dirhams each, while two others received fines without imprisonment.
Original (Hungarian): Fél évre börtönbe zárták az abu-dzabi szálloda halljában verekedő híres MMA-harcosokat - Man who shot fleeing Hungarian burglar in the back from ten metres is acquitted — A Salzburg homeowner was finally acquitted for shooting a fleeing 31-year-old Hungarian burglar in the back in July 2025, and his statement that he would shoot again reignited debate in Austria over self-defence and vigilantism.
Original (Hungarian): Tíz méterről tarkón lőtt egy menekülő magyar betörőt, felmentették, azt mondja, újra megtenné - Police investigate David Walliams over new harassment allegations — London police opened an investigation after further women made reports following media accounts of harassment and sexual misconduct by David Walliams, who denies breaking the law or abusing his power.
Original (Hungarian): Nyomozás indult David Walliams ellen friss zaklatási vádak miatt - Tiger released for TikTok video kills worker in Pakistan — A tiger, apparently kept illegally, was released for a TikTok video at a private farm in Lahore and fatally injured a 19-year-old worker, leading to the arrest of the farm owner and video maker after police said they tried to portray the incident as a dog attack.
Original (Hungarian): TikTok-videó kedvéért kiengedett tigris gyilkolt Pakisztánban - Detroit bus driver reprimanded for letting two horses board — A Detroit bus driver let two horses and their handlers onto an almost empty bus, where the animals simply crossed through it, but the city opened an investigation and will send drivers for animal-related training.
Original (Hungarian): Vérlázító: kitüntetés helyett letolták a buszsofőrt, aki felengedett a járatra két lovat - Tyúkól Extra: Women receive a major package of promises, but delivery matters — Magyar Péter promised a broad package to combat violence against women, including tougher criminal laws and changes to abortion-related rules and emergency contraception access, while the programme said implementation, timing and public feedback would be crucial.
Original (Hungarian): Tyúkól Extra: Jó nagy ígéretcsomagot kaptak a nők, de nem mindegy, mi lesz a vége - Lentulai Krisztián was unmoved by the woman who became a meme — Lentulai Krisztián said Gabriella was seated behind Varga Judit at a parliamentary hearing to make the former minister look ridiculous and called her ill-mannered and irritating, while the 67-year-old retired foreign-currency loan victim later attended another committee hearing.
Original (Hungarian): Lentulai Krisztiánt nem hatotta meg a mémesült nő története: „kihajította volna a teremből”, és „nem érdekli, hányszoros károsult” - Weekend reading on Orbán Áron’s arrest, hidden billions, mistakes and crisis management — The week’s featured topics included Orbán Áron’s arrest, the dispute surrounding Varga Judit’s hearing and Magyar Péter’s turbulent week, alongside government issues, measures concerning women’s protection, international politics and AI’s effects on the labour market.
Original (Hungarian): Hétvégi olvasnivalók Orbán Áron bukásáról, elásott milliárdokról, hibákról, tűzoltásokról és hasonlóakról - Pilinszky’s first public statue to be unveiled, based on a bust he smashed in anger — A bronze version of Ferenczy Béni’s 1954 terracotta bust of poet János Pilinszky will be unveiled in Balatonkenese on November 30, based on an original Pilinszky smashed after an argument with his aunt and which was later restored.
Original (Hungarian): Felavatják Pilinszky első köztéri szobrát, ami egy olyan szobor bronz verziója, amit a költő a nénikéjével veszekedve dühében darabokra tört - Orbán Áron in handcuffs? Have you heard about the Szent Johanna Gimi author’s dispute with Refresher? — Author Leiner Laura said a two-year Refresher video series analysing her Szent Johanna Gimi books amounted to bullying and abuse, prompting a response from the outlet and debate on social media.
Original (Hungarian): Orbán Áron vezetőszáron? Durva, de hallottad már a Szent Johanna Gimi szerzője vs. Refresher balhét? - A November hygge tip: watch thousands of Tata’s wild geese live from home — Two live webcams show wild geese gathering at Tata’s Old Lake, where their numbers may rise through November and reach 50,000 in some years, with the birds most visible early in the morning and around sunset.
Original (Hungarian): Nedves november protipp: itt a magyar hygge, bámuld élőben a tízezernyi tatai vadludat otthonról - Police and informants are unusually pleased with a little weed these days — The article criticizes police communications for presenting small marijuana seizures and informants’ involvement as successes, focusing on drug-related posts and reports published by authorities.
Original (Hungarian): Senki sem örül annyira manapság egy gizda dzsónak, mint a zsaruk és a vamzerek - Leave the camera bag at home: we tested the vivo X500 Pro — The review says the vivo X500 Pro combines a ZEISS-developed camera system, powerful zoom, gimbal-level stabilization and an attachable teleconverter with strong hardware, a large battery and a customizable Android interface.
Original (Hungarian): Otthon hagyhatod a fotóstáskát: kipróbáltuk a vivo X500 Pro-t
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