András Tombor

András Tombor - a former security-policy advisor to the first Orbán government and a businessman close to Árpád Habony's inner circle - acquired the Mandiner news portal on June 1, 2017, through his newly created company, Mandiner Press Kft. Just months earlier, in February 2017, an Átlátszó investigation revealed that a mysterious Luxembourg investor, Mangusta Invest SA, had taken a stake in Tombor's advertising company Atmedia; Mangusta's directors were linked to controversial international financial dealings, including an alleged Russian-Angolan debt-restructuring scheme, suggesting an opaque ownership background behind the Mandiner deal. According to a 2017 Index article, Mandiner - previously a right-leaning but sometimes government-critical blog aggregator - passed into government-aligned hands with Tombor's acquisition, and two staff members were removed from the masthead. Tombor is also the founder of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), which grew over the following years into one of the government's largest publicly-funded cadre-training institutions and media empires.