Examples of using Strok in English and their translations into Croatian
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There were some other deviations of which Strok knew nothing.
As Strok did not pay the requested sum the hotel did not pass the second inspection.
Immediately following the first technical inspection Strok got into the first arguments with Zeravica and Kralj.
Alamat visited Strok before he decided to call USKOK and told him what had taken place.
After they sought bribes from him three times andwhen he saw where things were headed, Strok consulted with his associates, and spoke in person with William Montgomery.
For Strok it all indicated that she was in collusion and very well coordinated with Zeravica, Kralj and Butijer.
Ivo Zeravica and Antun Kralj began demanding bribes of Goran Strok in order to secure him the issue of occupational permits for the Hotel Bellevue.
Strok ordered the contractors to built a panoramic elevator, and to have a part of the storage area turned into a dozen new rooms because a view of the sea had opened up in that part of the hotel after some porous rock had caved in.
Kralj spoke with her about how Strok does not stand a chance of getting the papers until he pays.
Strok was very flustered by the increased bribe, going so far as to call Butijer to hear an explanation of why he should pay the money, especially as there had been no problems around the renovation of the Dubrovnik Palace, nor had anyone sought bribes from him before.
The sum of 120 thousand euro, initially requested of Strok, was increased to 200 thousand euro after the first technical inspection, made in November of 2006.
Zeravica then told Strok that the price had gone up because Strok had not paid 60 thousand euro for the issue of papers for the renovation of the Dubrovnik Palace hotel to Stijepo Butijer, who is responsible for urbanism at Dubrovnik City Hall, is a long-time member of the Croatian Physical Planning Council, and is the owner of a group of companies called Alfaplan.
Istria County Prefect Ivan Jakovcic, businessman Milan Naperotic, former tennis player Bruno Oresar, andhotelier Goran Strok are the new faces drawing a growing amount of attention from both Croatian and Austrian investigators of the Hypo bank scandal.
That is why he led Strok and the recording of the extortion to HDZ Secretary General Jarnjak, who initiated the USKOK operation.
Ivo Zeravica, the assistant head of the State Administration Office in Dubrovnik, was recorded by USKOK investigators from three cameras in different positions as he sought a bribe in Dubrovnik from well known hotelier Goran Strok to help him get the papers needed to open the Hotel Bellevue, and that is not the only recording that deeply implicates and compromises him in Dubrovnik 's Five Stars corruption scandal.
They requested a bribe of Strok once again, which coincided about the time of the second technical inspection of the hotel in April of 2007.
A recording of the conversation was taken by Montgomery and Strok to Ivan Jarnjak, then president of Parliamentary Committee for Interior Policy and National Security and HDZ Secretary General.
That is probably the reason that Strok and Montgomery decided to visit Jarnjak and face him with the compromising recording of persons that some of his party colleagues might try to protect.
As the investor in the renovation of the hotel, Strok had secured location and construction permits, but made some deviations from them during the actual construction.
After consulting with Montgomery, Strok decided on his own initiative to record a conversation with Ivo Zeravica in which he was asked for bribe money.
Ivo Zeravica began seeking bribes from Strok in the summer of 2006 and did so, together with Antun Kralj, a Dubrovnik construction contractor, three times.
Nacional has tried to get into contact with Goran Strok, William Montgomery and Vlaho Alamat, but they have decided to remain unavailable for any comment in connection to the affair.
It was in fact,by all accounts, William Montgomery who advised Goran Strok to record one of his conversations with Ivo Zeravica, the assistant head of the State Administration Office in Dubrovnik, during which he asked Strok for a bribe in return for which he would take care of papers needed to open the Hotel Bellevue.