Zsolt Horváth

Zsolt Horváth (born 22 May 1964) is a Hungarian physician, dentist and politician, former member of the National Assembly (MP) for Kecskemét (Bács-Kiskun County Constituency II) between 1998 and 2014. Horváth acquired offshore firms before and after leaving the National Assembly, per the 2016 Panama Papers leak.

Education Horváth finished Katona József Secondary School of Kecskemét in 1982. He graduated with an MD degree from the Faculty of General Medicine of the Semmelweis University of Medicine in 1989 and studied in the United States from 1989 to 1990. In 1994 he graduated from The Faculty of Dentistry of the Semmelweis University.

Horváth was among those implicated in the Panama Papers scandal for founding offshore investment companies in the Seychelles. In October 2013, as a member of the National Assembly, he became director of the offshore company Excelle Media International Ltd., not mentioned in his 2014 declaration of financial interests to the Hungarian parliament.

In September 2014, Horváth became director of Mayer & Collins Trading Company Ltd. with Hungarian businessman Imre Kökényesi as co-director of both companies, which manufacture and sell toys in China, Hong Kong and Hungary, and are registered with the law firm Mossack Fonseca. In March 2015, Mossack Fonseca identified Horváth as a politically exposed person.