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The trail of “dark money” on the sunny side of the Alps

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Jože Biščak (Photo: Veronika Savnik)

By: Jože Biščak

The fraud involving organisations, associations, and institutes that present themselves as non‑governmental is far more extensive than one might expect. It is a network that, under the guise of civil society, supports left‑wing actors and undermines the sovereignty of nation‑states. This bloodstream, of which Slovenia is also a part, is driven by globalist forces that have been conducting a targeted operation for decades to advance their own interests. Their goals appear noble to the average person: from protecting the planet to emphasising human rights to encouraging empathy for refugees. But behind these words lies a vast scheme of stealing and laundering taxpayers’ money.

Recently, Hungary faced a scandal involving wiretapping and covert recordings. Slovenian media wrote extensively about it, claiming, without evidence, “look, Janez Janša and Viktor Orbán are alike.” But they did not report on another matter that surfaced at the beginning of February, even though it would also have been relevant for Slovenia. It was revealed that still‑unknown hackers had broken into the computer system of the Tisza party, led by the globalist Péter Magyar, a political opponent of Orbán’s Fidesz party, with whom he will compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

On the Leak Base forum, which is part of the so‑called “dark web,” they published the Lunda platform, through which Tisza collects funds and uses it to mobilise “volunteers.” Not only domestic supporters were exposed, but also a network of left‑wing (non‑governmental) organisations connected with foreign actors and directing money into Magyar’s campaign. According to alternative media, the data “looked like a systematic, long‑term, and targeted operation by globalist forces” aimed at disabling the current prime minister, Viktor Orbán. And just a few weeks later, Europol (backed by the European Union, which has repeatedly attacked Orbán and supported Magyar) “shut down” Leak Base in a coordinated international operation. I do not intend to speculate, because you can add one and one yourselves, and Orbán had already been warning for months about how leftists are financed from abroad. The analysis (while the data was still accessible) showed that the paths of the entire globalist network responsible for Hungary lead to Péter Magyar, who was created and positioned to break the Hungarian conservative majority.

It is similar elsewhere – including in Slovenia. The magazine Demokracija already revealed in early September last year the role of Nika Kovač in the D‑Hub project, which is part of an opaque network of left‑wing organisations with practically unlimited budgets, amounting to billions of euros (Polona Frelih, former Delo correspondent, also wrote about this recently on Facebook). We came across this discovery after U.S. President Donald Trump announced an investigation into a network of several non‑governmental organisations involved with so‑called “dark money” (money that nonprofit and nongovernmental organisations collect to influence elections without having to disclose the identities of their donors).

The network, which is closely connected to the U.S. Democrats, is managed by the “charitable” organisation Arabella Advisors, which has two funds – the New Venture Fund and the Sixteen Thirty Fund – that support left‑wing actors, their activist groups, and NGOs. For Slovenia, the first fund is of particular interest, as it organises several projects. One of these is D‑Hub (Democracy Hub), where Nika Kovač has been the executive director since 2024. The website Influence Watch of the Capital Research Centre, which investigates the links between civil‑society influencers and politics, wrote that “D‑Hub … is an important conduit for dark‑money donations to centre‑left groups.”

Now that you know all this, it will also be clear to you that Nika Kovač’s press conference was an internationally planned and directed operation against the conservative opposition leader Janez Janša.

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