Árpád Habony

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Árpád Habony (born 1968) is a Hungarian entrepreneur, oligarch and longtime unofficial advisor to Viktor Orbán.^[1][2][3] He has been referred to as the "unacknowledged spin doctor" of Orbán, but his exact position is not formally stated.^[4] He is credited as the unofficial architect of the fake news, anti-immigration and negative propaganda campaign of Orbán's party, Fidesz.^[5] He and the late Arthur J. Finkelstein were shareholders in "Danube Business Consulting Ltd."^[6]

In 2006, he physically abused an elder couple on the street in Budapest for which he received two years probation.^[7]

• Árpád Habony in The Orange Files
• "Meet The Mystery Man Who Is The Power Behind The Throne In Hungary". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 2023-05-17.
• How the Habony Fidesz communication machine works - The Budapest Beacon

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