Thread by @Rail_splitter1

Viktor Orbán was financed by the Russian mafia:

“Semyon Mogilevich [supreme Russian mafia don] asked me to give a suitcase with 1 million DM to a young man. After he won the [1998] election I realised this man had been Orbán. Mogilevich said that had been electoral help.”

The above is from the affidavit of Dietmar Clodo, associate of the Solntsevskaya Bratva. In German in the photo.

“In the 1990s, I lived in Budapest and worked with Semyon Mogilevich. I handed envelopes with cash [from the Solntsevo mafia] on his behalf to many corrupt people.”

Here’s where things get more interesting. Orbán initially refused to get in Clodo’s house to get the money. But Clodo insisted, citing fear of going out with the money.

“The young man refused to enter my home. I told him: “I have the damn money and I am not stepping out with it. If you refuse to enter, I’ll give it back to Mr. Mogilevich.“ He went up to my place and I handed over the suitcase with cash.”
Inside, the cameras were rolling.

If you were a Russian mafia don, would you simply treat this as cash for services? Of course not. You’d also collect kompromat.

Mogilevich, who ran his mafia from Budapest, recorded all “disbursements,” including to Orbán and Sándos Pintér, future Fidesz interior minister.

Now remember that, while Orbán was clearly always corrupt, he was the last person you’d suspect of sympathising with, let alone working to benefit, Russia.
Until 2008, the record is full of his vociferous condemnations of Russia.

In 1998, after becoming PM at age 35, he pointedly refused to visit Moscow.

In 2007, he warned that Hungary must not become “the happiest barracks for Gazprom” and harshly criticised the country’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

In 2008, Orbán called the Russian war on Georgia “an imperialist abuse of brutal power.”

And then, a miraculous transformation occurred. In November 2009, he traveled to a United Russia meeting and happily met Putin. Gone were the condemnations. Gone for good.

What happened? Semyon Mogilevich and his old friend Putin seem to have happened.

In late 2008, Mogilevich appears to have been “arrested” in Moscow. Now, such arrests in Russia are not necessarily what they seem to the normal world.

Arrests of mafia dons in a place where mafia and state are the same are made for several reasons. Sometimes, to finish off screwups. Sometimes, to protect them. Sometimes, to tell an old friend you’re not happy they’re not calling as much as before.

While things are murky, Mogilevich’s arrest seems to have been of the latter type. After all, we know Seva and Vova have known each other since their Leningrad days.
And we know this from Ukraine’s SBU’s tapes of conversations with Leonid Kuchma.
m.censor.net/ru/news/56206/…

As one of his signs of loyalty to Putin, Mogilevich likely turned in the Budapest tapes.

Seva was soon free again while Orbán underwent the transformation of a lifetime.

(We know about the tapes from the book Mafialand Deutschland by the journalist Jürgen Roth).

And naturally, let’s not forget that one of the people that helped Mogilevich launder his money was Donald J. Trump.

Vyacheslav Ivankov, Seva’s associate and a brutal murderer, lived in Trump Tower, where he owned apartments, while a worldwide hunt for him was on. David Bogatin, another Mogilevich associate, bought 5 luxury apartments there, with Trump attending the contract signing.

Dietmar Clodo has also stated that during a Solntsevskaya Bratva gathering in Moscow in 2013, he met representatives of Trump dispatched to pitch business to the bratva’s head, Sergei “Mikhas” Mikhaylov.

Orbán, Trump, Mogilevich, Putin. The road to hell.

We can be certain there is a similarly sickening story in every country blighted by the Russian mafia/state and their traitorous local servants, who serve Moscow due to varying combinations of kompromat, bribery, boundless greed, and common goals of torching the world.