Businessman. He was arrested in 1968 on a charge of conspiracy against the state and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment in the Pór trial, for participating in left-wing organization. He was expelled from the University of Economics, where he was a third-year finance student, but a presidential pardon meant that the legal sanctions associated with his sentence were lifted in 1971. He graduated from the Budapest College of Commerce and Catering in 1973. He then worked in leading commercial posts in state-owned enterprises until 1988, when he set up independently. At present he is proprietor of a watch-trading company.