The tabloid page of Kata Sarka’s husband is hardly read, yet it generates a brutal profit

acnews.hu works with a huge profit rate, and in 2020 it became the owner of Kata Sarka’s husband, István Bessenyei, who heads the pro-government guard and protection company Valton, writes the Media1.

Photo: Instagram/Sarka Kata

While Gemius does not even measure the site’s visitors and has only 1,300 followers on Facebook, in 2021, in addition to net sales of HUF 1.16 billion, it had a profit of HUF 1.01 billion, from which the 95 percent owner of the company was able to receive a dividend of HUF 725 million. Bessenyei with ratio.

In the same year, another media company of Kata Sarka’s husband, Netrise Hungary Kft., which operates femcafe.hu, paid a dividend of 621 million to its Bessenys, who also have a Luxembourg address.

In 2022, acnews.hu generated net sales of HUF 784 million, and the profit after tax was HUF 670 million. The publisher’s financial report does not really explain how this came about. In addition, AC News employed only 6 people last year. On the other hand, their advertising surfaces are sold by the same company as twn.hu, which also has little traffic and is owned by Kata Sarka and Cecília Rogán-Gaál.

The annex to the financial report reveals that the two owners – István Bessenyei and the managing director Etelka Simándi, who owns a 5 percent share – received more than HUF 909 million in dividends. This also means that almost all profits have been taken out of the company in the last two years.