In this episode, our host Joshua Coe speaks with Szabolcs Panyi, an investigative journalist with Direkt36 and VSquare, about his recent cross-border investigation shedding light on how Hungary reportedly surveilled EU anti-fraud investigators probing the company of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s son-in-law.

His findings indicate that Hungary’s foreign intelligence services even created an entire department to spy on EU institutions.

https://x.com/direkt36/status/1865028521816658259

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