A Polish investigation into the collapsed Zondacrypto exchange shows how access to Viktor Orbán’s circle was sold as a service, priced against the Hungarian election calendar and delivered to nobody.

For nine months a retired Polish anti-corruption officer billed the head of a crypto exchange 15,000 euros a month. Part of what he sold was Hungary. He told his client that Orbán’s people would buy the exchange, pointed him towards the chairman of Hungary’s largest bank and made the deal conditional on Fidesz surviving the vote of 12 April 2026. Fidesz did not survive, the money never came and the bank says it never heard of any of it.

Reporters from TVN24 and Wirtualna Polska published on 9 September…