Iren Karman hasn't given up on an old Hungarian scandal known as Oilgate just yet, and it almost cost the 40-year-old journalist her life.
On Saturday 23 June, Iren Karman, a 40-year-old investigative journalist was discovered on the shore of the river Danube. <
She had been tied up and half beaten to death.
The previous evening, she had been kidnapped by two men as she walked home from a video rental shop in a Budapest suburb.
Only emergency surgery to stop internal bleeding saved her life.
Based mainly on individual testimonies from witnesses, ex-police, convicts and businessmen, Iren Karman has dedicated years to uncovering the story of what came to be known as "oilgate".
The nutshell version is that in the 1990s, heating oil was fixed at a low price. However, there was soon some jiggery-pokery involved in getting the cheap fuel into gas tanks at considerable cost to the Hungarian treasury. Politicians were suspected of providing cover.
Over the years, 340 people have been convicted. But commentators say they are mostly small-fry and middle men.
Media reporting of the issue has been weakened by a tendency to blame parties or police that each journalist or publication dislikes.
In 2000, the parliamentary investigative committee foundered on the unwillingness of the police, customs and the political elite to cooperate on an issue which showed them in a very poor light.
But the brutal beating of a journalist today, far from scaring anyone away, has reminded everyone of the unresolved "oil business" of the 1990s.