About 20 people, including former president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's husband Jakov Kitarovic, were recorded celebrating St. Martin's Day with the director of the JANAF oil pipeline operator on the day when he took a bribe, the Jutarnji List daily said on Tuesday.
On the day when businessman Kreso Petek allegedly brought a HRK 1.96 million bribe to JANAF director Dragan Kovacevic, undercover police recorded Kitarovic exiting premises in Zagreb that have been dubbed Klub.
Besides him, about 20 people were recorded arriving at and leaving the premises, mainly private businessmen, but also Jaksa Marasovic, a former Croatian People’s Party MP and associate of Kovacevic at JANAF.
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According to the charges against Petek and Kovacevic, Petek brought Kovacevic a bribe on 11 November 2019 in exchange for landing contracts for JANAF.
At that time, police had been keeping Petek under surveillance for two months, taping his phone conversations and recording his movements on video, the newspaper said, adding that Kovacevic and two of his closest associates at JANAF, Vlado Zoric and Damir Vrbanac, were also under surveillance.
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