László Tóth

László Tóth, president of the Hungarian Judo Federation, is one of the owners of TMT Technics Kft., which acted as a pandemic-era intermediary supplying medical equipment to the Hungarian state. The company bought a Chinese mask-manufacturing machine line for €226,000 and almost immediately resold it to the State Healthcare Provider Center for €600,000 - nearly triple the price - while comparable Chinese lines were available on online marketplaces for a fraction of that, around €60,000. Police declined to investigate the deal for suspected budgetary fraud, using reasoning the press described as strikingly hard to follow. Tóth's name also surfaced in connection with the ventilator procurement, his company being one of ten domestic suppliers in the roughly 17,000-unit state program. The case illustrates the broader pattern of Covid-era health procurement running through newly founded or newly repurposed intermediary firms.