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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]