Alpac Capital

Alpac Capital makes equity investments in order to achieve active involvement in the business development of its investees.

[1] In April 2016, Orban called Mario David a "true friend" and gave him the middle cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.

[1] Due to Orbán's repeated media violations, where he influences media regulators to punish any and all journalists who negatively reports on his or his government's actions, Alpac Capital's purchase of Euronews from Naguib Sawiris was put under increased scrutiny as an attempt by Orbán to influence wider European politics.

[2] In On May 31, 2024, Alpac Capital was fined €100,000 by the Portuguese Securities Market Commission for failures to comply with the obligation to obtain customer identification data, to obtain counterparty identification data in various respects, to assess the quality of beneficiaries, to adopt additional due diligence procedures, to take enhanced measures about the customer and the counterparty, and to notify the termination of the duties of the person responsible for compliance and to replace that person.

Luis Santos,[16] who worked at Mckinsey for 9 years, in Europe, South America and Asia, holds an MBA from Columbia University and a PhD on Political Science and International Relations from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.