A €30,000 agreement for 16 hours of lifesaving instruction has resurfaced in a Hungarian visa investigation after coordinated police raids on Monday, renewing scrutiny of a company led by Áron Orbán, the younger brother of former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
The arrangement dates to early 2024, when Multi Shoot contracted the University of Pécs to train groups of 20 Vietnamese visitors over two days. The fee was €30,000 per group, excluding tax, according to a contract first obtained by Hungarian newspaper Népszava.
Orbán signed the agreement as Multi Shoot’s chief executive, not its owner.
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The university confirmed the contract’s authenticity and said two Vietnamese groups completed the training. Separate documents obtained by Népszava referred to 50 visitors staying in Hungary between March 20 and April 5, 2024.
The paperwork contained another discrepancy. Multi Shoot’s Hungarian-language invitation described a five-day health program, while its English version stated ten days. Both differed from the university’s agreed two-day course and the documents do not establish that a visa was unlawfully issued.
The financial arrangement matters because short-term educational invitations could provide a stated purpose for applying for a Schengen short-stay visa. Whether those applications reflected genuine travel intentions, or were used to facilitate other movements, is among the questions raised by earlier investigations.
On Monday, Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation and National Asset Recovery and Protection Office said they had apprehended several people and searched premises in Budapest and two Pest County municipalities. The operation involved two ongoing criminal proceedings concerning suspected human smuggling.
Telex reported that officers appeared at a property linked to an Orbán-associated company. Asset recovery office head Anna Unger confirmed further investigative steps in the case involving Áron Orbán, but did not confirm that he had been detained.
Prime Minister Péter Magyar cited press reports claiming Orbán’s brother was in custody. The original Kontroll report said only that he might be implicated while the police announcement identified no detainees.
The university arrangement was not the network’s only reported activity. A June 2025 Telex investigation described proposed courses at universities in Nyíregyháza and Győr that never went ahead, and allegations involving paid assistance with work-permit applications. Its findings were based on contracts, messages, recordings, and complaints from intermediaries.
Hungary’s asset recovery office took over a visa-related influence-peddling investigation after the change in government.
Viktor Orbán called Monday’s operation a politically motivated effort targeting him, an allegation not independently established.
