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George Soros, billionaire and founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, poses for a photograph ahead of a meeting with the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker (not pictured) in Brussels, Belgium.Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg

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By Zoltan Simon

November 20, 2017 at 10:19 AM UTC

Updated on

November 20, 2017 at 2:45 PM UTC

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George Soros, the billionaire investor, condemned the political campaign waged against him in his native Hungary after the cabinet ordered spy agencies to investigate his philanthropic network.

Hungary’s ‘‘National Consultation on the Soros plan,” a government mail-in survey on Soros’s purported positions relating to immigration, contains “distortions and outright lies,” a statement posted on Soros’s website on Monday said.