Dan Ťok
| Dan Ťok | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 4, 1959 (age 67) Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Education | Brno University of Technology (Ing., mechanical engineering) |
| Occupation | Business executive, politician |
| Company | České dráhy |
| Title | Vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board, České dráhy |
| Children | 2 |
Dan Ťok (born March 4, 1959) is a Czech business executive and former politician. He led the Czech operations of several international industrial and construction groups, including ABB, Alstom and Skanska, before serving as Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic from December 4, 2014, to April 30, 2019.[1][2] As of October 2026 he is vice-chairman of the supervisory board of the state railway operator České dráhy.[3]
Ťok trained as a mechanical engineer at the Brno University of Technology and spent 13 years at the Brno boiler and power engineering maker První brněnská strojírna, rising from design engineer to division director. He then ran ABB's Czech power systems business from 1996 to 1999 and Alstom's operations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1999 to 2003. After that he chaired the board of the gas distributor Jihomoravská plynárenská and was managing director of KKCG Industry, the industrial holding of the billionaire Karel Komárek.[1][4] From February 2008 to November 2014 he was chairman of the board and managing director of Skanska a.s., the Czech arm of the Swedish construction group.[4][1]
The ANO 2011 movement nominated Ťok, who was not a party member, as transport minister in November 2014 after Antonín Prachař resigned. His appointment drew criticism over a possible conflict of interest because Skanska was one of the largest contractors for state transport projects.[5] He served under Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and then in both governments of Andrej Babiš. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2017 and became the country's longest-serving transport minister.[6][7]
His time as minister was dominated by the tender for a new electronic motorway toll operator, which ended with the selection of a satellite system from the CzechToll and SkyToll consortium. It was also marked by criticism over congestion and repairs on the D1 motorway. Separately, he faced questions about an alleged CZK 100 million payment at Skanska during his tenure there, which he denied.[8][7][9] He announced his resignation on April 8, 2019, citing fatigue from constant attacks and saying ANO had changed since he joined the government.[10] After leaving office he began doctoral studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague and took seats on the boards of state and private companies.[11]
Early life and education
Ťok was born on March 4, 1959, in Uherské Hradiště, in the Zlín region of what was then Czechoslovakia.[4][12] In a 2008 interview with Hospodářské noviny, quoted later by the ČTK news agency, he said he believed his unusual surname came from the Hungarian surname Tóth.[4]
From 1974 to 1978 he attended the secondary mechanical engineering school in Uherské Hradiště. From 1978 to 1983 he studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Brno University of Technology, in the Department of Heat Engines and Nuclear Facilities.[12] He graduated with the Czech engineering degree (Ing.). His government biography lists English, German and Russian as his languages.[1]
Career
První brněnská strojírna, 1983 to 1996
After graduating in 1983, Ťok joined První brněnská strojírna, a Brno engineering company that built boilers and power equipment. From 1983 to 1992 he worked there as a design engineer for steam boilers.[1] From 1992 to 1996 he was director of the boiler division of ABB První brněnská strojírna, s.r.o.[1][12] The ČTK profile published at his ministerial nomination described his 13 years at the company as a progression from designer through project manager and division director to general director.[4]
ABB and Alstom, 1996 to 2003
From 1996 to 1999 Ťok was chairman of the board and managing director of ABB Energetické systémy, s.r.o., the Czech power systems subsidiary of the Swiss-Swedish group ABB.[1] In 1999 he moved to the French power and transport group Alstom. He was its regional director for the Czech Republic and Slovakia and, at the same time, managing director and chairman of the board of ALSTOM Power, s.r.o., until 2003.[1][12]
Jihomoravská plynárenská and KKCG Industry, 2003 to 2008
From 2003 to 2006 Ťok was chairman of the board and commercial director of Jihomoravská plynárenská, a.s., the South Moravian gas distribution company.[1] He then joined KKCG, the investment group of the businessman Karel Komárek. From 2006 to 2007 he was managing director of KKCG Industry B.V. According to his government biography, he was responsible there for the strategic development of the machine-tool makers Kovosvit MAS and Kovosvit, the railway wheel and axle groups ŽDB Group and Bonatrans Group, and the further expansion of KKCG Industry.[1] The ČTK profile describes him as having led KKCG Industry for two years before he moved to Skanska.[4]
Skanska, 2008 to 2014
In February 2008 Ťok succeeded Zdeněk Burda, who had led Skanska's Czech business for many years, as chairman of the board and managing director of Skanska a.s.[4][1] Skanska was one of the largest construction companies in the Czech Republic and a major contractor for road and rail projects.[5]
Ťok became known in the industry for saying the company would change how it competed for public contracts. In 2011 he told the news site Aktuálně.cz: "Skanska has decided that it wants to change its behaviour in this market and to act transparently. And it is prepared to pay a price for that. That may include the fact that our orders will temporarily fall."[4] When he was nominated as minister, Lidové noviny reported that experts, politicians and businesspeople saw him as the manager who had taken Skanska out of construction-industry cartel arrangements at the cost of a significant drop in revenue.[5] Radim Jančura, head of the transport company Student Agency, told iDNES.cz that Skanska had been part of a cartel of construction firms for many years and that under Ťok it began competing on price and lost contracts as a result.[13]
Under Ťok, Skanska had several significant disputes with the Ministry of Transport and its agencies. In 2011, during the tenure of Transport Minister Vít Bárta, the ministry put up signs along some motorways, including the D11, warning of allegedly poor-quality work by Skanska. The company went to court, which ordered the signs removed.[4][13] In 2014 an arbitration tribunal ruled that Skanska had to repay tens of millions of crowns it had received through incorrect billing of price indexation on the D47 motorway.[4]
In 2013 Skanska's Czech business reported a loss after managers in its concrete structures division were found to have overstated inventory to improve their division's figures. The loss ran into hundreds of millions of crowns, and the employees involved left the company.[4][5] Lidové noviny also reported that a Skanska manager had been accused by police of corruption in 2010 over the construction of a hotel and houses in Prague.[5]
By the time Ťok left, Skanska was the leading winner of Czech public construction contracts in 2014. According to Lidové noviny, it won 69 tenders worth CZK 4.85 billion in the first nine months of that year. Its projects included, with other firms, the extension of Prague Metro line A from Dejvická to Motol, and a second track between Stéblová and Opatovice in eastern Bohemia worth CZK 770 million.[5] On his nomination as minister in November 2014, Ťok handed the management of Skanska to its finance director, Patrik Choleva.[5]
Andrej Babiš had previously offered Ťok the post of director of the state Road and Motorway Directorate (ŘSD), which he declined. In 2011 he had also ruled out entering politics.[13][14] In February 2014 he publicly criticised the state of transport administration, telling Lidové noviny: "I have been here for six years, and the number of ŘSD directors and transport ministers I have seen is unbelievable."[4]
American Chamber of Commerce
On June 19, 2014, the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic (AmCham) elected Ťok as its 12th president, succeeding František Dostálek of KPMG after two years. He had previously been AmCham's vice-president for finance and chairman of its platform for transparent public procurement.[15] On taking office he said the chamber wanted to be a forum where the public and private sectors could discuss the country's economic problems. He added: "We know that we must be more competitive, and we know that good government must be a key factor in our competitiveness."[15]
Minister of Transport
Nomination and appointment, 2014
On November 12, 2014, Transport Minister Antonín Prachař (ANO) resigned, and ANO leader and Finance Minister Andrej Babiš announced Ťok as the movement's candidate to replace him.[14] At a briefing the same day, Ťok named three priorities: the situation at the Road and Motorway Directorate, the motorway toll and the overall stabilisation of the sector. He said: "I am not a supporter of personnel purges; I would rather solve it with common sense." He rejected conflict-of-interest concerns, saying he had never owned Skanska and was "only a hired manager", so his ties would end when he left.[14]
The nomination divided opinion. Jan Birke, transport spokesman for the governing Social Democrats (ČSSD), said Ťok would be in a conflict of interest that would burden the government.[5] Petr Gazdík, deputy speaker of the Chamber of Deputies for the Mayors and Independents (STAN), called the appointment "non-standard" given Skanska's involvement in transport construction. MEP Stanislav Polčák said that making Ťok minister risked "making the goat the gardener".[16] František Laudát of TOP 09 supported him as "a professional", while expecting that questions would follow whenever Skanska won contracts.[16] Václav Matyáš of the Association of Construction Entrepreneurs welcomed the choice and said Ťok had a sense of fair play in competitions.[13]
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka met Ťok and agreed to the nomination. On November 18, 2014, Ťok met President Miloš Zeman at Prague Castle. He told reporters afterwards that they had discussed transport policy, including high-speed rail and "design and build" contracting, and that conflict of interest had not come up.[17] He said he would not appoint anyone from Skanska to professional posts at the ministry, to avoid speculation about a conflict of interest.[17] Sobotka said Ťok's reputation for speaking out against non-transparent public contracts had decided the matter.[18]
Zeman appointed Ťok on December 4, 2014. At the ceremony the president noted that Ťok was the tenth transport minister in six years, and said ministers had been changing "like figures on the astronomical clock".[19][18] Sobotka listed the priorities as stabilising the ŘSD and České dráhy, a tender for a new toll operator, faster construction of the D11, D3, R35, R52 and R49 roads, a rail link between Prague's Masaryk station and the airport, and full use of EU funds.[19] Ťok called the ministry one of the most difficult in government and said he approached the job "with great humility". He also criticised České dráhy's handling of a recent ice storm, during which passengers had been stuck on trains for up to 14 hours.[19]
Electronic toll tender
Choosing a new operator for the truck toll on motorways and major roads was one of Ťok's main tasks. The existing ten-year contract with the Austrian company Kapsch, awarded in 2005, had been criticised by the Supreme Audit Office as costly, and Prachař had already fallen behind in preparing a replacement tender.[20] Under Ťok, the ministry negotiated changes to the Kapsch contract, extending it by up to three years. On June 15, 2017, it announced a technology-neutral tender for the operator from 2020, with an estimated value of almost CZK 29 billion over ten years. Ťok said: "We continue correcting the mistakes in the toll selection left by the previous governments."[21] The tender extended tolling to about 900 kilometres of additional class I roads.[21]
The Anti-Corruption Endowment Fund (Nadační fond proti korupci) complained to the competition authority that some tender conditions were discriminatory. It also objected that the ministry had hired Deloitte to advise on the tender in 2016 without a competitive procedure.[22]
On April 11, 2018, Ťok told the government that the ministry had selected the consortium of CzechToll, part of the PPF group of Petr Kellner, and the Slovak company SkyToll. Its satellite-based bid was CZK 10.75 billion, excluding VAT, for ten years of operation, against the CZK 29 billion budgeted.[8][23] The other bidders were Kapsch, Hungary's National Toll Payment Services and Germany's T-Systems.[23] In May 2018 the Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) cancelled the tender at first instance. Among its reasons, it said the tender documentation had been stored on rewritable flash drives. Ťok said the office had merely looked for reasons to cancel it, and the ministry contested the ruling.[24] CzechToll later said that it and SkyToll had signed a contract with the ministry to build the satellite system. It said its price was CZK 2.7 billion lower than the bid from Kapsch.[25]
Ťok later said he had not realised that the toll was "such a problem, not a factual one but a political one". He accused Kapsch of trying to keep the contract by any means and of wanting "a weak minister".[10] In early 2019 a police investigation revealed that Jaroslav Faltýnek, a senior ANO official, had led secret negotiations concerning the toll tender. Ťok said Faltýnek would have to explain those meetings to the police.[7][10]
2017 election and the Babiš governments
In the October 2017 election to the Chamber of Deputies, Ťok, still not a party member, headed ANO's candidate list in the Karlovy Vary Region.[26] He received 5,014 preferential votes, 11.58 percent of the ANO vote in the region, and won a seat.[26] On December 13, 2017, Zeman reappointed him transport minister in Babiš's first government. By May 2018 that government was serving in resignation.[12][24]
On May 16, 2018, Ťok said he was considering leaving the government and was reluctant to join the next one. The Communist Party (KSČM), whose tolerance the new minority government needed, had long-standing objections to him, and the Social Democrats had criticised the toll tender.[24] He said at the time that he felt weak support from ANO on the toll tender.[23] On June 4, 2018, Babiš said he supported Ťok on the toll and did not rule out his continuing.[23] Ťok stayed on in Babiš's second government, a coalition of ANO and ČSSD, appointed on June 27, 2018.[2]
Ropák roku 2016
In April 2017 the environmental group Děti Země named Ťok "Ropák roku" (Oil Slick of the Year) for 2016, an anti-award it has given annually since 1992 for the year's most anti-environmental act. The group cited his ministry's repeated blocking of the inclusion of the Louky u Přelouče meadows in the Natura 2000 network of protected sites. It also cited his role in the government's decision on the Labe canyon in the České středohoří protected landscape area, the trial operation of the D8 motorway between Lovosice and Řehlovice, and a proposal not to carry out new environmental assessments for several transport projects.[27] Ťok responded that he was glad to receive it, saying he had been "afraid he would be forgotten". He added that his ministry had helped move the blue butterflies at the Přelouč site to a replacement location where they were thriving.[27]
Resignation, 2019
Ťok announced on April 8, 2019, in an interview with Novinky.cz, that he would leave the government. He said he had offered his resignation to Babiš in January, but the prime minister had declined it because he had no replacement.[10] Ťok said he was tired "not by the work for people and the ministry, but by how I constantly have to explain something somewhere. All the attacks, the need to defend myself." He added that ANO was "a little different from the ANO for which I entered the government five years ago". It had been "a liberal centrist party", he said, and should be more responsible about the budget.[10]
Radio Prague reported that Ťok was blamed for the permanently congested D1 motorway between Prague and Brno, which had prompted a special session of the lower house, and for delays in securing a toll operator.[7] In the Novinky interview he apologised to drivers who had been stuck for 16 hours on the D1 during a weather emergency, but called much of the criticism unfair. He also defended his effort to clear unauthorised billboards from motorway verges, saying only a fraction remained.[10] Babiš said he had never intended to dismiss Ťok and that Ťok deserved thanks. He credited him with tackling long-standing corruption problems and with halving the cost of motorway construction.[7]
Ťok gave up his parliamentary seat on April 15, 2019, saying he would give the chance to "someone who has more desire". He was replaced by Iva Kalátová, a former mayor of Rotava.[6] On April 30, 2019, Zeman appointed Vladimír Kremlík to succeed him as minister.[2]
Later career
After leaving government, Ťok was reported to be interested in a diplomatic post and was mentioned as a possible ambassador to Indonesia, but the appointment did not happen.[11] In March 2021 the Babiš government approved his nomination to the administrative board of Správa železnic, the state railway infrastructure manager. The Ministry of Finance also put him forward for the supervisory board of the energy company ČEZ, but he did not take the seat. Finance Minister Alena Schillerová said he was being held "in reserve" for future changes.[11] He also sat on the supervisory board of Aerith Hold, a private real estate company, alongside the crisis manager Václav Novák.[11]
By October 2021 Ťok was a second-year doctoral student in the new Smart City programme, run jointly by the Faculty of Transportation Sciences and the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague. His supervisor, Václav Jirovský, said he had passed all his first-year examinations with top marks. Ťok said he did not need the title: "The old wisdom says the brain is like a muscle; if you don't exercise it, it weakens and wastes away."[11]
On February 9, 2026, after Babiš returned as prime minister, the steering committee of České dráhy replaced four of the six members of the state railway operator's supervisory board. Ťok was among the new members, alongside the former Slovak economy minister Vazil Hudák.[28] The commercial register records his membership from February 10, 2026, and his election as vice-chairman of the board from February 26, 2026, with Hudák as chairman.[3]
Leadership and management style
Ťok described himself as a hired manager rather than an owner, and presented this as the reason his ties to Skanska would end on his departure.[14] At Skanska he publicly tied the company's strategy to transparency in public procurement, accepting lower order intake as the cost.[4] He also chaired AmCham's platform for transparent public procurement.[15] Petr Šlegr of the Centre for Efficient Transport said the industry saw Ťok as the person who took Skanska out of cartel agreements and tried to improve the environment for state contracts.[5]
As minister he said he preferred stability to purges. He told reporters in 2014 that he was "not a supporter of personnel purges", and in 2019 he defended his approach against Babiš's preference for a more forceful style.[14][10] "Perhaps the prime minister has an idea that everyone around him should be very active and forceful, but I think my style is suitable for work in transport," he said. "If you don't let people work for the long term, the problem is that they run away from you and nothing gets done."[10] He advocated "design and build" contracting, in which one contractor is responsible for both design and construction, as a way to speed up transport construction, and was open to public-private partnership projects.[17]
Critics questioned how much responsibility he took for problems at Skanska. In a 2015 opinion piece, former transport minister Zbyněk Stanjura of the opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS) accused Ťok of twice presenting himself as "a mere director" who could not be blamed: once over the 2013 accounting fraud at Skanska and once over the R7 allegations.[29] Stanjura quoted Ťok's comment on the accounting case: "One of my closest colleagues disappointed me. We drew immediate consequences; we fired that person."[29]
Board memberships and outside roles
- President of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic, elected June 2014; previously its vice-president for finance and chairman of its transparent public procurement platform.[15]
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Brno University of Technology and of the Regional Business Chamber in Brno.[1]
- Member of the administrative board of Správa železnic, from 2021.[11]
- Member of the supervisory board of Aerith Hold.[11]
- Vice-chairman of the supervisory board of České dráhy, a member since February 10, 2026, and vice-chairman since February 26, 2026.[3]
Controversies
R7 expressway and Skanska allegations
In March 2015 Czech Radio, working with Swedish Radio, reported that Skanska's Czech subsidiary was suspected of corruption over the R7 expressway near Chomutov while Ťok was its head.[30] A consortium of EDS, Geosan Group and Skanska had won the CZK 2.2 billion contract in 2008, with Skanska as leader holding 71.5 percent.[31] According to the reports, in 2010 Skanska's Czech unit gave up 16.5 percentage points of its share, which covered a bridge, to Geosan without the approval of the Swedish headquarters. Geosan then hired Skanska to build the bridge for about CZK 100 million less.[31][9] Anders Blomqvist, then head of Skanska's internal audit, said the money had apparently been intended for bribes. He told Czech Radio that Ťok had admitted to him at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm that it was a bribe.[9]
Ťok denied the allegations: "I completely reject it. That money did not go to bribes and it was not a suspicious transaction."[9] He said a 2011 internal audit, in which Blomqvist took part, had found nothing wrong. In a two-page letter to Prime Minister Sobotka on March 18, 2015, he attributed the price difference to a fall in construction prices between 2008 and 2011.[31] Babiš defended him and rejected calls for his dismissal.[31] Skanska said its 2011 internal review had found no impropriety, although the change in shares had not been approved by its management board and broke internal rules. It hired Deloitte for an external audit of the R7 contract.[32]
By January 2016 Czech anti-corruption police were investigating the case and had seized documents in searches. Ťok had given an explanation to police but declined further comment. Swedish prosecutors were also examining the matter.[9] No charges against Ťok were reported in the sources consulted for this article.
Conflict of interest
Opposition and coalition politicians questioned whether a former head of a major transport contractor should run the ministry that awarded its contracts. Lidové noviny called his conflict of interest "obvious" in 2014, noting that Skanska had won the most public contracts that year.[5] Ťok called the issue "a somewhat virtual matter".[18]
Personal life
Ťok has two daughters.[14][1] His nephew is the footballer Tomáš Ťok, who played for 1. FC Slovácko; in a 2016 interview, Tomáš Ťok confirmed that the minister was his uncle.[33] In 2017 the Czech Statistical Office's candidate list recorded his residence as Prague.[26]
Recognition
- 2016: Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, awarded by a decision of the President of Poland dated March 10, 2016, "in recognition of distinguished services in developing Polish-Czech cooperation".[34]
- 2017: Named Ropák roku 2016, an environmental anti-award, by Děti Země.[27]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 <ref>"Dan Ťok".Government of the Czech Republic.December 4, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 <ref>"Doprava, spravedlnost a průmysl mají nové ministry, vláda nové vicepremiéry".ČT24, Česká televize.April 30, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 <ref>"Výpis z obchodního rejstříku: České dráhy, a.s.".Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic, Public Register.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 <ref>"Kdo je Dan Ťok".Echo24 (ČTK).November 12, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 <ref>Pavec, Michal."Bojovník s korupcí ve střetu zájmů. To je ministr dopravy ze Skansky".Lidovky.cz.November 12, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 <ref>"Ministr dopravy Ťok už není poslancem, mandát složil v pondělí".Lidovky.cz (ČTK).April 15, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 <ref>"Embattled transport minister announces decision to step down".Radio Prague International.April 9, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 <ref>"CzechToll and SkyToll shall be the new toll system operator from 2020".Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic.April 11, 2018.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 <ref>Chaloupská, Markéta."Policie prověřuje možnou korupci v české pobočce Skansky, na kterou upozornili reportéři ČRo".iROZHLAS, Český rozhlas.January 1, 2016.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 <ref>Zpěváčková, Barbora."ANO se změnilo, unavily mě útoky. Ťok vysvětlil svůj odchod z vlády".Novinky.cz.April 8, 2019.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 <ref>Pšenička, Jiří."Exministr dopravy Dan Ťok si „procvičuje mozek" na pražské ČVUT".Seznam Zprávy.October 16, 2021.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 <ref>"Dan Ťok".Government of the Czech Republic.December 13, 2017.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 <ref>Horák, Filip."O pověst Skansky se přel i s Bártou. V branži má Ťok renomé férového hráče".iDNES.cz.November 12, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 <ref>Barochová, Anna."Ministr musí stabilizovat situaci v ŘSD i resortu dopravy, míní Ťok".iDNES.cz.November 12, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 <ref>"Tisková zpráva: Dan Ťok ze společnosti Skanska zvolen novým prezidentem Americké obchodní komory v České republice".Objevit.cz.June 27, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 <ref>"Výběr "kozla zahradníkem" se už jednou nevyplatil, připomněl Polčák Řebíčka".Deník (ČTK).November 12, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 <ref>"Zeman jmenuje Ťoka ministrem dopravy. Střet neřešil, řekl exšéf Skansky".iDNES.cz (ČTK).November 18, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 <ref>"Dan Ťok se stal desátým ministrem dopravy během šesti let".E15 (ČTK).December 4, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 <ref>"Ministerstvo dopravy má nového šéfa. Ťoka čeká hlavně stabilizace ŘSD".ČT24, Česká televize.December 4, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ <ref>"For whom the tolls bell: new transport minister will focus on problematic roads use contract".Radio Prague International.November 18, 2014.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 <ref>"The Ministry has announced a technology neutral competition for the toll system after 2019".Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic.June 15, 2017.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ <ref>"Protikorupční fond podal kvůli mýtnému tendru stížnost k ÚOHS".České noviny (ČTK).August 28, 2017.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 <ref>"Ťok může zůstat ministrem i v příští vládě, Babiš mu slíbil podporu v mýtu".Aktuálně.cz (ČTK).June 4, 2018.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 <ref>"Ťok zvažuje, že skončí ve vládě".Novinky.cz.May 16, 2018.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ <ref>"CzechToll statement on signing the contract with the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic".CzechToll.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 <ref>"Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny Parlamentu České republiky konané ve dnech 20.10. a 21.10.2017: Karlovarský kraj, ANO 2011".Czech Statistical Office.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 <ref>"Ropákem je ministr Ťok, zablokoval mimo jiné ochranu lokality u Přelouče".iDNES.cz.April 28, 2017.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ <ref>"České dráhy mění čtyři členy dozorčí rady, zasednou v ní Ťok či Rozvoral".Seznam Zprávy (ČTK).February 9, 2026.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 <ref>Stanjura, Zbyněk."Já nic, já ředitel. Já nic, já ministr".Echo24.March 21, 2015.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
- ↑ <ref>"Czech Skanska suspected of corruption".Radio Prague International.March 17, 2015.Retrieved October 29, 2026.</ref>
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