István Bács

Fidesz politician István Bács served for years as Deputy Mayor of Érd, overseeing the city's kindergarten construction projects. A June 2022 Átlátszó investigation found that between 2011 and 2019, Érd's municipal government and mayor's office signed contracts worth over HUF 200 million with Inteszkomp Kft., a company owned by Attila Argyellán, a close associate of Bács; only four of the 28 contracts involved a genuine public procurement procedure, with the company often winning as sole bidder or through non-advertised negotiated procedures. In March 2023, the Budapest Court of Appeal issued a final ruling — rejecting Bács's defamation lawsuit against Átlátszó — confirming that Bács is indeed related to the owner of General-Invest Bau Kft., a company that won more than HUF 1 billion in Érd kindergarten construction tenders. The same kindergarten construction projects came under investigation by the EU's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) starting in November 2022, after Érd Mayor László Csőzik filed a police report; as city hall communications director László Ferenc stated, "we received confirmation that OLAF accepted it." In 2021 it also emerged that Bács had given his own company, Aequivalentia Kft., a HUF 71.5 million member loan that he failed to disclose on his wealth declaration; when an Átlátszó reporter pressed him on it, Bács replied that the reporter was "a lying, malicious, manipulative, thoroughly corrupt dirty communist who would sell his own soul."