Four months after taking power in Hungary, Prime Minister Peter Magyar's government has created the NVVH, a sweeping asset recovery authority tasked with reclaiming an estimated €60 to €180 billion allegedly siphoned from public life during Viktor Orban's long tenure. The agency represents an attempt to transform a campaign promise—accountability for a system critics describe as feudal in its redistribution of state wealth—into institutional reality. Yet the appointment of a political scientist to lead it, and her candid warning that major convictions may not arrive for six years, has introduc