Rob Schmitz
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183 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 16 Aug
Rob Schmitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All around us is discarded equipment surrounding a half built semicircular modernist mansion made of concrete and steel.
This half-built mansion belongs to Jula Balosh, one of the most infamous oligarchs of the former Orban regime.
The 46-year-old is one of the wealthiest people in Hungary, with a reported net worth exceeding $300 million.
He and his family divide their time between Budapest and Miami.
He's also known to have a pension for extravagant supercars, including a Ferrari Testerosa and a Lamborghini Diablo.
He became rich by turning his advertising company into a propaganda machine for Orban and his Fidesz party.
They scattered the country with billboards inciting hatred against any perceived threat to Orban.
People like George Soros, Volodymyr Zelensky, migrants, and the entire European Union, of which Hungary is a member.
In return, Balosh received public contracts worth nearly three and a half billion dollars, according to the Hungarian Watchdog Group, the Corruption Research Center.
Baloch's high flying life came to a screeching halt when his friend Viktor Orban conceded the election on the night of april twelve.
Within weeks, Peter Majar's new government froze Balosha's bank account as part of a corruption investigation into his companies.
Days later, a solemn nervous balush appeared on a television news program to defend himself.
The interviewer asked him if he had considered fleeing the country.
Through tears, Balos said, I was born in this country, I grew up here, my family is here, and I have no reason to leave.
Balash's half built mansion has become a pilgrimage site for people like Geizab, who wants to understand the depth of corruption during Viktor Orban's sixteen year rule over the country.
Yeah.
It is striking.
Bob isn't the only Hungarian in a bit of a daze from the excesses of Victor Orban's government.
For many here, it feels like waking up to a world filled with possibilities for the new government.
Stefania Capronce is former director of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.
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