Nemzeti Sportközpontok

Nemzeti Sportközpontok (NSK), the state background institution that carries out stadium and sports-facility investments, has shown a repeated pattern of circumventing transparency and wasting public money across several unrelated cases. In 2018 the NSK issued two public tenders, each kept just under the 300-million-forint competitive-tender threshold, for the renovation of the Hajós Alfréd swimming pool and a training center in Tata; all eight bids received fell between 299.86 and 299.98 million forints - differing from one another by only 85,000-94,000 forints - and the winners were companies with minimal construction experience or revenue, linked through a common owner, Petra Stribli-Csíkos. In the same period, NSK repeatedly obstructed freedom-of-information requests about construction details of the 190-billion-forint Puskás Stadium, rejecting them with contradictory fee demands and procedural objections. In the state school-swimming-pool construction program, most of the planned pools were delayed by 2017, and cost overruns paid to late contractors cost the NSK at least 760 million forints above contracted amounts.