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By Tamas Csonka in Budapest A Russian oligarch and Hungarian premier Viktor Orban’s son-in-law approached Spar separately with bids backed by the government to buy stakes in the Dutch-based retail chain’s Hungarian operations over the past year, Vsquare reported on April 4. The bids were allegedly part of a campaign by the government to force the retailer to allow businessmen close to the semi-authoritarian Orban regime to enter the company. The Hungarian government is on record for pushing for more domestic ownership of key strategic sectors and has allegedly used tactics close to extortion t…

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