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On a Hungarian TV news program in 2008, a businessman promoted a big investment plan: the construction of two bioethanol factories in neighboring Romania that would buy up crops produced by farmers and turn them into fuel
“I think it will provide a good livelihood for them,” said Erik Bánki
identified as the Hungarian manager of HP Investment
a Romanian company proposing to invest €70 million to build one of the factories
Bánki wasn’t merely a businessman — he was an influential politician
he has served as a legislator in the Hungarian Parliament
rising to a powerful position with the governing Fidesz Party as head of the Economic Committee
A joint investigation by two OCCRP partners
Direkt36 in Hungary and RISE Project in Romania
Bánki spent almost €1 million through several companies to buy more than 110 hectares of land in Romania
including the proposed locations of the two factories
He has never declared the details of his business in Romania
and the law governing Hungarian officials does not explicitly require him to do so
according to documents examined by OCCRP partners Direkt36 and RISE Project
the details of the deals raise serious questions
there’s the matter of the acquisition of the land
Some of the purchases Bánki made required tenders from at least two companies — and the only other company that submitted a bid was co-owned by his cousin
it’s unclear where the money for the land could have come from
And his statements to reporters about possible financing for the bioethanol project are contradicted by a contract examined by reporters
Romanian court documents show that the promised bioethanol factories were never built and that Bánki’s companies accumulated more than €2.3 million of debt to local governments
consisting mostly of unpaid penalties due to the ultimate failure of the enterprise
These debts were eventually settled for just 17 percent of their value when authorities took over land Bánki had bought for about €390,000 in lieu of repayment
most of Bánki’s Romanian companies no longer exist
and his remaining land in the country is the subject of bankruptcy proceedings
Hungarian law requires parliamentarians to file annual asset statements to give a full picture of their financial situation
Direkt36 checked Bánki’s declarations from 2000 to 2018
in which he reported that he has bought more than 200 hectares in Hungary since 2015
but he never declared the land bought by his companies in Romania
The Hungarian law on asset declaration does not clearly spell out whether parliamentarians must declare only directly owned assets
While some deputies do declare indirectly owned assets
Bánki only declared the existence of his Romanian companies
including neither the land he bought through them nor the public debts they incurred
Bánki told Direkt36 there was no reason for him to do so
“The assets of a company and private ownership are different things,” he said
it is not owned by a private person.” Records show that Bánki owned 90 percent of one company that purchased the land and 100 percent of the other
Nor do Bánki’s asset declarations offer any clues about where he got the almost €1 million he spent on Romanian land between 2007 and 2010
A review of his annual declarations and wage records from 2000 shows that Bánki’s official salary as a politician oscillated between €20,900 and €39,000 annually
while his Hungarian and Romanian companies either lost money or posted only smaller profits
The debt of one of his companies grew from about €291,000 in 2007 to €688,000 in 2010
Bánki told Direkt36 that the land purchases were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies
He said he did not remember the names of the companies
and refused to present documents that would prove the existence and the amount of the loans
Bánki has risen to an influential position in Fidesz
since his start in politics in the 1990s as a local official and party activist in the southern county of Baranya
Except for a two-year detour to Brussels as a member of the European parliament between 2012 and 2014
Bánki has served in the Hungarian legislature since 1998
Although he has mostly worked in the background
since October 2015 he has headed the Economic Committee
an institution that under parliamentary rules allows Fidesz to prepare and push through legislation without substantial debate
he has co-owned nine Hungarian companies involved in real estate management
Bánki began his Romanian operations in 2006
According to the Romanian Commerce Registry
he has owned 90 percent of the company since its founding
A map showing where Banki bought his Romanian land and a chart listing his purchases
(Edin Pasovic)His entry into Romania coincided with that of Duna Development Ltd.
a development company then co-owned by the Austrian and Hungarian governments
Duna had been organizing alternative energy projects in Hungary and began to plan similar developments in Romania
“Bioethanol factories seemed to be the most promising at that time,” said Tibor Érsek
Duna was responsible for preparing the projects
including obtaining the necessary permissions
Hungarian media reported that Duna was planning the construction of two bioethanol factories in Romania close to the Hungarian border: one in Salonta
Érsek recalled that Duna negotiated with Bánki and his company to collaborate on the factories
but both he and Bánki said they did not recall whether any contracts were signed
The exact nature of the relationship between Duna and Bánki’s companies remains unclear
But Bánki’s actions strongly suggest that he was partnering with Duna
Documents obtained from Salonta City Hall and from court records show that his Romanian companies bought land in both Salonta and Carei between 2007 and 2010
he signed a contract to build a bioethanol factory in Salonta
Bánki appears to have benefitted from some familial help
Salonta authorities organized the auctions in 2007 and 2008 to sell municipal land in an industrial area
officials needed to receive offers from at least two companies
Bánki’s HP Investment won two public auctions to buy the land
the companies submitted their offers at the same time
and Bánki’s company offered a slightly higher purchase price per square meter than his cousin (€0.25 higher at the first and €0.05 higher at the second auction)
that my cousin also bid,” Bánki told Direkt36 without specifying whether he was referring to the first or second auction
Madár told Direkt36 that he learned about the public auctions through a “business partner.” Asked whether he knew his cousin Bánki also intended to bid and whether they had coordinated in any way beforehand
“Surely not.” Immediately after the second public auction
MSB Invest SRL “ceased all its substantial activities,” he said
Bánki’s winning bids allowed HP Investment to buy 12.5 hectares in Salonta just over €315,000
(He also bought an additional 1.2 acres from a privatized state company
paying double the price he had paid the city for the plots nearby.)
And through another company called HP Agro — an agricultural concern founded in 2007 — Bánki bought another 90 hectares in Salonta and nearby villages between 2007 and 2009
which he told reporters was meant to be used for farming after the completion of the factory
Bánki recalled that the bioethanol project in Salonta was to be financed by foreign companies
acquiring the necessary land and negotiating with local farmers
“My company did not put any money into this project
we put only our work and energy,” he told Direkt36
Bánki claimed that a company based in Switzerland
which was owned by an American investment fund
was interested in the project and pre-financed it
He said that HP Investment was contracted by the investment fund
but could not recall its name or provide the contract
it promised to pay 0.01 percent of the investment’s value each day (about €7,000) until the work was completed
the other town where Duna Development planned a bioethanol factory
his HP Investment obtained the land by buying a Romanian company called Cobochim SRL
Bánki’s company did not sign any contracts with Carei officials about bioethanol investment
Cobochim went bankrupt in 2016 and its land is now subject to bankruptcy proceedings
A review of the financial reports of Bánki’s Romanian companies indicates that they never made enough profit to cover the land deals
HP Investment spent more than €922,000 to buy land and acquire a company between 2007 and 2010
while its debts grew from about €291,000 to €688,000 during that period
Bánki said the additional money came from loans
but could not recall who loaned him the money
“This growth in debts was in proportion with the acquisitions
Companies that had an interest in the realization of the bioethanol project lent money to HP Investment to buy the land,” he said
He could not explain why the financial reports showed that — even accounting for its modest profits — HP Investment’s reported debt of about €688,000 would not cover the €922,000 it spent on the land
“Maybe something was missed from the accounting data
I can’t give an explanation for this,” he told Direkt36
A loan also paid for the land bought by HP Agro
He said his brother’s company in Hungary borrowed some money and that some of it was spent on the 90 hectares
but he could not recall what the company was called
the bioethanol factory he promised in Salonta was never built either
In September 2010, almost a year after he had promised it would open, Bánki wrote to Salonta’s mayor and local council to explain that the project had been delayed by the recent global financial crisis: “As you know
2008 brought negative changes to the worldwide economy ..
so we couldn't find partners for the bioethanol factory.”
Bánki’s original bid had not mentioned that he would need additional investors for the project
But in the letter he blamed International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans taken by Hungary and Romania to counter the crisis
adding that he would be unable to find partners for the investment until the financial situation stabilized
offering to employ new technology to generate electricity from household waste
he would increase his investment to €91 million and create 20 percent more jobs than he had initially promised
He also promised that the plant would start production in May 2014
but asked that he not be fined for the delay
arguing that he couldn’t afford to pay the fines due to the economic crisis
Although HP Investment still had no employees, Salonta officials gave Bánki another chance, fixing new deadlines for the investment plan and cancelling the penalties owed up to that point. However, the modified contract stipulated that penalties would be calculated starting from 2014 if the investment wasn’t finished. Despite the dispute, Bánki remained active in the town’s public life
together with the local Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania
he founded the Bocskai Award “to highlight the work of Hungarians” to be given annually to those “that have done a lot for Salonta.” In 2011
Bánki handed the award to a local folk dance group at a charity event also attended by Salonta Mayor László Török
Meanwhile Bánki was making real estate deals in Hungary
and that summer he and his wife invested over €360,000 to buy a real estate company
Among the company’s assets was a 133-square-meter flat in a gated northern Budapest community called Roman Wellness Home
overlooking the Danube with a well-maintained park
Bánki never listed this flat in his asset declarations
He told Direkt36 that he did not have to because it was owned by his company
but his wife owns two other flats in the same gated community through yet another company
Bánki told Direkt36 that he only “halfway” lives in the Roman Wellness Home
as he also spends “two to three” days per week in his constituency in the south of Hungary
Banki’s company was supposed to begin work on the bioethanol factory in March 2012
Salonta officials lost patience and reimposed the original terms
HP Investment had accumulated €2.3 million in penalties for missing the original deadline
and had also failed to pay €43,000 in property taxes
The local authorities asked a judge to declare the company bankrupt
“We have no guarantee that we can recover the money” in any other way
and transferred HP Investment’s land in Salonta
which the company had previously bought for more than €390,000
to the local authority to satisfy the €2.3 million debt
The companies that Bánki said lent him the money to buy the land did not appear in the court documents
“Those companies had already failed [due to the economic crisis]
they went bankrupt before our insolvency procedure,” Bánki told Direkt36
HP Investment was deleted from Romania’s Register of Commerce in 2014
the Salonta mayor who signed all the contracts with Bánki’s company
didn’t answer calls or messages from reporters
When they visited the town hall in August to talk to him in person
went into insolvency due to over €3,600 in unpaid taxes to state institutions in Satu Mare
Court documents in Satu Mare suggest that Bánki tried to salvage the HP Agro land for himself
in which an employee of the Salonta municipality
was a minority shareholder (Bánki owned 90 percent while Szathmáry owned 10 percent)
Bánki asked Szathmáry to “do things for him” in Romania
a relative of Szathmáry told reporters when they visited Agro Future Salro’s Salonta address in August
Szathmáry did not answer Direkt36’s phone calls and emails
Bánki bought 90 hectares of the HP Agro land through Agro Future Salro for just €29,545 euro
According to the court files on the HP Agro insolvency proceeding
Agro Future was rebuffed when it tried to register the land at the Cadastral Office because it did not submit a purchase contract for the deal
Bánki told Direkt36 that he had paid the same amount for the land at the time of the purchase
According to a price list established by the National Public Notaries Union for 2008 and 2009
the value of just 65 of the 90 hectares in question was at least 227,500 lei (€63,000) during this period
After an independent evaluation in 2016 by the National Association of Authorized Evaluators in Romania concluded that the land was worth almost 10 times more than he had paid for it
Bánki’s new company stepped back from the deal and it was cancelled
who represents the Romanian liquidator of HP Agro
confirmed to RISE Project that the deal fell through over the price discrepancy
HP Agro’s land was sold to a company called Artiplet SRL for €309,628
HP Agro was deleted from the state Registry of Commerce
Artiplet SRL is owned by Ioan Robert Erdei
Erdei confirmed he bought the land from HP Agro
noting he negotiated with intermediaries and never met the owner
but says he does a lot of business and doesn’t remember hearing anything about the bioethanol project
and I am interested in such projects to have a place to sell what we produce … but I heard nothing about it.”
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