Sovereignty Protection Office: Transparency International Manipulates, Disinforms, Serves Global Interests

The Hungarian foundation of Transparency International’s network carries out political pressure activities as part of a global lobbying network. It uses its scientifically questionable "corruption perception index", suitable for manipulation and disinformation, to discredit Hungary internationally, according to the information Magyar Nemzet obtained regarding the main findings to be published in the report on the Hungarian organization prepared by the Sovereignty Protection Office.

According to information obtained by the Mandiner portal, Ligeti performed badly in the event and his suitability was called into question within TI. 

Deep state toolkit 

According to the information we obtained, the main findings in the office's report include:

• TI was set up in the early 1990s as part of an international network through the World Bank, primarily to serve US economic and political interests. Along with the US National Endowment for Democracy and the German Marshall Fund, it is part of the same circle of deep state agencies that last year's Hungarian national security report identified as posing national security risks. 

This was established after an inquiry into the role of Action for Democracy in helping the Hungarian opposition in 2022 from abroad, drawing on deep state instruments. What both organizations have in common is the aspiration to discredit Hungary's current leadership -  Orban's government - on the international stage, and to bring about a change of government in Hungary through undemocratic means.

• TI's Hungarian foundation is a non-transparent organization, which was established in the form of an association back in the 1990s by the Hungarian connections of global circles, and those of the Free Democrats and 'impex' (export-import companies) circles, and was run to 'oil' the privatization process.
• TI's "Corruption Perceptions Index" is a scientifically questionable methodology for reporting subjective opinions and thus for manipulating, as well as for disinforming international forums and the press. Discrediting Hungary causes damage to the country's  economy. The German researcher who developed the index later turned his back on TI, and has since used a revised methodology approved by the European Commission.

(To be continued.)

 Cover photo: Jozsef Peter Martin, executive director, at a conference held by the Transparency International Hungary in a Budapest restaurant on December 9, 2019 (Photo: MTI/Balazs Mohai)