Videos of a countryside estate owned by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's father have raked in hundreds of thousands of views online, with an anti-corruption campaigner sharing fresh footage Wednesday.
The videos have tapped into a widespread frustration about corruption in Hungary, where Orban's inner circle has grown spectacularly wealthy from public tenders even as the European Union has frozen billions in funding over alleged graft among other things.
The nationalist leader denies claims that he is the real owner of the sprawling Hatvanpuszta manor and has played down the idea of it being a luxury estate, describing it as an agricultural facility still under construction.
Independent lawmaker Akos Hadhazy, an anti-corruption activist, published a video about the lavish manor o