Csizmadia László Elnök Úr sajtótájékozatón elhangzott beszéde

President László Csizmadia's speech at the news conference

I would like to welcome the representatives of the media.
I now open the press conference.

Our intellectual patriots believe that when the Hungarian community is subjected to unjust attacks,
they stand up for themselves backed by the strength of the truth.
Therefore, it is not surprising, for example, that the billions of forints worth of dollars arriving from
abroad to support opposition forces, which influenced the parliamentary elections, can be
considered a slap in the face of public morality and Hungary's sovereignty.
The old adage is true: he who pays the piper calls the tune. That is what we saw happen with the fall
of the senior MEPs. The “lobbying” for the illicit receipt of money likely served the political and
economic interests of foreign states and led to corruption in practice.
Senior MEPs arrested on suspicion of corruption using the power of their party group are about to be
exposed.
Our active citizens have found it worthwhile to take a look at the civilian waters of our own nation.
They found that some NGOs are unashamedly open about the fact that they rely on foreign money to
sustain themselves. Unlike them, CÖF-CÖKA received the financial and economic reports of the
Átlátszónet Foundation and the Atlatszo.hu Public Nonprofit Ltd. from their voluntary intellectual
workers without any remuneration. These data show substantial foreign ties.
However, as the data show, the Átlátszó foundations paid investigative journalists millions, which
was financed by foreign partners. The 17 sponsoring partners they list are, without being exhaustive:
- Budapest Nyílt Társadalom Intézet Alapítvány (OSI)
- Transparency International Magyarország
- International Visegrád Fund
- Fritt Ord
- Budapest Nyílt Társadalom Intézet Alapítvány (OSIFE)
- Open Society Institute
- Open Society Initiative For Europe (OSIFE)
- Sigrid Rausing Trust
- GACC, České centrum pro investigativní žurnalistiku
- Benevity Platform
- OIP, Zinc Network
- Foundation Open Society Institute (FOSI)
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Global Anti-Corruption Consortium
- EAT Project
- Journalism Development Network
- Google Digital News Innovation Fund

The financial support provided to investigative journalists and the related costs have been taken into
consideration:
(1. figure)
The portals of the Átlátszó foundations give the false impression that, unlike the former, “they
operate based on Community funding, which is also a guarantee of their independence”. This basis is
crumbling because foreign support substantially exceeds domestic support.
The appearance of independence is contradicted by the fact that the Átlátszó foundations receive
significant funding, close to HUF 90 million, through the Benevity Platform’s system. However, this
system ensures anonymity, allowing any money from illegal activities to change hands, raising the
risk of tax evasion and tax fraud.
Benevity is one of the largest donations management companies in the world. Its network connects
more than 2 million organisations. It also provides payment via PayPal. The company did not respond
to our official request for information. The Átlátszó foundations avoided our question as to whether
they have contracts with Benevity.
Money transfers between the Átlátszó foundations took place almost every year, which they
probably learned from the operations of the Soros-type foundations. For example, The Sigrid Rausing
Trust received a grant of USD 1,900,000 from the George Soros Foundation in 2016. Similarly, the
GACC (Global Anti-Corruption Consortium) has also received significant support from George Soros.
The same applies to JDN (The Journalism Development Network), which received USD 800,000 each
year. This is interesting because it is indirectly about organisations that support Átlátszó.
The Átlátszónet Foundation presents its public benefit activities as a form of cooperation with
Hungarian, international and OTHER organisations engaged in anti-corruption activities, and by
providing them with the data it has obtained and in its possession. The Foundation does not disclose
the details of these “other” organisations. It is not possible to track which foreign interests use these
data. Foreigners can only access this data via the Átlátszó foundations.
Shockingly, in 2021, 2,727 public interest data requests were made in one year, with 5,372 data
subjects available. 885 investigative journal articles were published on atlatszo.hu.
Many unanswered questions remain in addition to the collected data. Our intellectual patriots
believe they are not investigative journalists. From a national security point of view, there are
obviously official bodies that need to investigate the open questions and reassure the public with the
results of an investigation.

The chart below shows the support received by Átlátszó.hu Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft between 2016
and 2021. The chart does not show the USD 240,000 support provided by the Open Society Institute
to the Átlátszónet Foundation in 2021.
In 2019, the year of municipal elections, and in the years leading up to the 2022 Hungarian
parliamentary elections, there was a significant increase in foreign funding for the Átlátszó
foundations, which cannot be a coincidence.