"Kaya Ibrahim's business empire
by DoDo
Fri Sep 12th, 2008 at 07:14:40 AM EST
The most well known Turkish citizen in Hungary is a truck driver living near Stuttgart in Germany.
This came to be in the course of one of the longest-running party finance scandals (for which no one was ever even indicted). Corruption is endemic in the young democracies of the new members of the EU from the former Eastern Bloc - much of it could be described and explained as the original accumulation of capital... by the parties.
I'm going to tell about the Kaya Ibrahim saga, on the occasion of his first TV interview. I will also tell about two more recent scandals with a strong foreign (Austrian) connection - the first also connected to the elections there, the second concerning railways and privatisation."
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