Property Development Projects of President Donald J. Trump
I submit the following data request pursuant to Section 28 (1) of Act CXII of 2011 on the Right to Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information (hereinafter referred to as the Information Act).
I am contacting you on behalf of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a United States based civil society organization committed to building an ethical, transparent, and accountable government. CREW uses cutting-edge research, groundbreaking litigation, and innovative policy proposals to advance our mission. As part of this effort, CREW frequently files freedom of information act requests in the United States and uses that information to inform our litigation and produce in-depth research analyses, all of which can be found on our website (www.citizensforethics.org).
Specifically, CREW requests:
1. Any and all documents, payments, planning materials, communications or other materials related to the development of a Trump property in Budapest or any reference including but not limited to the following companies;
a. The Trump Organization,
b. DT Marks Budapest LLC,
c. DT Marks Budapest Member Corp.
2. Any and all materials related to or referencing Jared Kushner and the development of the “Grand Budapest” project
According to Section 30 (2) of the Information Act, I request that you send me the copies and other requested data electronically to the sender's e-mail address. If the requested data cannot be sent by e-mail for any reason, I request that you upload them to the website kimittud.atlatszo.hu. Please search for responsive records regardless of format, medium, or physical characteristics. We seek records of any kind, including paper records, electronic records, audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, data, and graphical material.
If the data controller for the contents of this request is not the Ministry of Transportation and Investment, I request the appropriate data controller to be identified. Our request includes without limitation all correspondence, letters, emails, text messages, facsimiles, telephone messages, voice mail messages, and transcripts, notes, or minutes of any meetings, telephone conversations, or discussions. Our request also includes any attachments to emails and other records, and anyone who was cc’ed or bcc’ed on any emails.
Pursuant to Section 29 (3) and (5) of the Information Act, compensation for the fulfillment of my data request may only be determined if the fulfillment of the data request involves a disproportionate use of the workforce resources necessary for the performance of the basic activities of the body performing public tasks. In such a case, the data controller is entitled to determine the cost of the workforce expenditure related to the fulfillment of the data request as compensation. Please inform me in advance electronically if you would determine compensation for the requested copies of documents. In this case, I ask that you attach a list of documents to the information, indicating the page number for each document, the amount of the workforce expenditure related to the fulfillment of the data request and its hourly rate.
Please, if you consider only part of the requested data to be accessible, send it to me together with the partial refusal of the data request, pursuant to Section 30 (1) of the Privacy Act. Please note that, according to the position of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information NAIH/2015/4710/2/V., this data request cannot be refused under Section 29 (1b) of the Privacy Act, as it contains the name and contact details of the data requester. According to the NAIH position, the data controller cannot request the provision of any further data, nor is it entitled to verify the identity.
CREW intends to analyze the information responsive to this request and to share its analysis with the public through reports, press releases, or other means. In addition, CREW will disseminate any documents it acquires from this request to the public through its website, www.citizensforethics.org. The release of information obtained through this request is not in CREW’s financial interest. We thank you in advance for your assistance with this request. If you have any questions about this request or foresee any problems in fully releasing the requested records, please email me at [email address] and [email address] or call me at +1 (202) 408-5565.
Üdvözlettel:
Isabel Rogers
Reference number: KAT/9295-1/2026/JKNHÁT
Delivered exclusively by electronic means
for Isabel Rogers
[1][adatigénylés #31288 e-mail]
Dear Recipient,
With reference to your public interest data request submitted pursuant to
Section 28 (1) of Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and
Freedom of Information (hereinafter: the FOI Act), we hereby inform you of
the following.
On 4 August 2026, you submitted the following public interest data request
to our Ministry:
„Specifically, CREW requests:
1. Any and all documents, payments, planning materials, communications or
other materials related to the development of a Trump property in Budapest
or any reference including but not limited to the following companies; a.
The Trump Organization, b. DT Marks Budapest LLC, c. DT Marks Budapest
Member Corp.
2. Any and all materials related to or referencing Jared Kushner and the
development of the “Grand Budapest” project”
We hereby inform you that, with regard to your data request, the Ministry
of Transport and Investment does not possess the requested data.
Information on Legal Remedies
In the event of the rejection of a request for access to public interest
data or the unsuccessful expiry of the deadline available for fulfilling
the request (or the extended deadline), as well as – if you have not paid
the cost reimbursement – for the purpose of reviewing the amount of the
cost reimbursement established for making copies, you may bring an action
before the Budapest-Capital Regional Court (1363 Budapest, Pf. 16 - 1055
Budapest, Markó utca 27.).
In the event of a violation of rights related to the exercise of the right
to access public interest data, you may also turn to the Hungarian
National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (1055
Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 9-11.).
The action must be initiated within thirty days from the date of
notification of the rejection of the request, the unsuccessful expiry of
the deadline, or the expiry of the deadline for payment of the cost
reimbursement, respectively.
If you submit a complaint to the Hungarian National Authority for Data
Protection and Freedom of Information due to the rejection or
non-fulfilment of the request, or due to the amount of the cost
reimbursement established for making copies, the action may be initiated
within thirty days following receipt of the notification concerning the
rejection of the substantive examination of the complaint, the termination
or closure of the investigation, or the outcome of the notification
calling upon the data controller to remedy the infringement of rights or
eliminate the direct threat thereof.
Please kindly acknowledge receipt of this information.
Budapest, September 16. 2026
Yours sincerely,
Ministry for Transport and Public Works
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