Orban Loyalist Who Ran ‘Soros List’ Targets Foreign Influence
- Tamas Lanczi to head agency probing politics, media, NGOs
- EU and US have said the new agency is an attack on democracy
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A long-time loyalist of Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned civil society groups and the media that they risked becoming targets of a new institution tasked with rolling back foreign influence in Hungary.
Tamas Lanczi, who heads the Sovereignty Protection Agency since it started work last week, said he’ll collaborate with other arms of the state, including the intelligence services, to collect information and expose organizations that receive money from abroad.