According to the investment and financial group "Sokrat," the lead manager of the auction, the Pryluky District Court prohibited the holding of bidding based on a lawsuit filed by an individual. As Roman Sazonov, president of IFG "Sokrat," told "DELO," it is not excluded that the person behind this ruling is Verkhovna Rada deputy from the People's Party faction Ihor Yeremeyev. It is "not excluded, but I cannot assert it," he said.
Yeremeyev currently fully controls NPC "Halychyna" and is least interested in selling the "Privat package."
According to Vladyslav Ostapenko, director of the investment banking department at IFG "Sokrat," the Pryluky court prohibited the company from taking any actions aimed at selling 32.86% of NPC "Halychyna." In addition, the court prohibited the association "First Stock Trading System," on whose platform the bidding was to take place, from holding the auction for the sale of this block of shares.
Sazonov reported that there is still time to file an appeal, since by law this requires five days.
The auction for the sale of 32.86% of NPC "Halychyna" shares was initially planned by "Sokrat" to be held on December 15. However, the auction was postponed to January 25. According to "Sokrat," the postponement occurred at the request of potential participants who, for technical reasons, could not manage to take part in the auction. The "Privat package" of shares was put up for sale at a starting price of UAH 572.167 million.
41% of NPC "Halychyna" shares are controlled by People's Deputy Ihor Yeremeyev, and another 25% of the oil refinery is in state ownership. The capitalization of "NPC "Halychyna" as of January 24, 2006, calculated at the price of the last transaction on the PFTS (UAH 1.91 per share), amounted to UAH 1.7 billion.
Printed in the newspaper "DELO" No. 64 dated January 26, 2006.