Antal Rogán
Antal Rogán is a Hungarian economist and politician, who serves as Minister of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office. He served as Mayor of Belváros-Lipótváros from 2006 to 2014. On Tuesday January 7, 2025, he was hit with US sanctions for his alleged involvement in corruption in Hungary. On Wednesday, 16 April 2025, the sanctions against him were removed by the US government.
The opposition refers to him only as a "minister of propaganda", alluding to the media empire he controls—expanded in 2022 with intelligence services—which resembles Goebbels's propaganda machine.
Political career
He became a member of the National Assembly in the 1998 parliamentary election. He had been leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group since 2 June 2012. Rogán was appointed Minister of the newly-formed Prime Minister's Cabinet Office on 17 October 2015. In January 2025 the Biden administration sanctioned him for corruption under the Magnitsky Act. The press release of the United States Department of the Treasury claims Rogán has built a network of corruption in Hungary aimed at controlling strategic sectors and channeling their revenues to himself and his political allies. In April 2025 the Trump administration lifted the sanctions, stating they were "inconsistent with US foreign policy interests."Personal life
Rogán's family is of Slovene descent from the Raba March in Vas County.He married his first wife, Alexandra Sonnevend, in 1999. He married his second wife, Cecília Gaál-Rogán, 2007; they announced their divorce in 2019. He married his third wife, Barbara Obrusánszki, in 2021.
He has one son from his first marriage, and two sons from his second.