Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky was still in business with a Russian rail company under US sanctions when he took over as Hungary’s defence minister last year.
Although he sold his stake weeks after assuming office, his appointment, business ties and political affinities are indicative of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s expanding grip on Hungarian society to include the armed forces and defence industry.
The Orbanisation of the Hungarian military-industrial complex comes as Nato allies are increasingly alarmed by the PM’s ambivalent stance towards Russia and the war in Ukraine, where Budapest remains an outlier in its continued refusal to send weapons to Kyiv.
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