* Nicolae Pascu, STK Financial: "No essential information has appeared that would make me to forgo my request that the SIFs summon the General Shareholder Meetings"
* The CNVM has asked the SIFs to stop making statements about the negotiations with Erste concerning BCR
A meeting behind closed doors took place yesterday, at the headquarters of SIF "Muntenia" of Bucharest, which was attended by the presidents of SIF "Moldova", "Banat-Crişana" and "Muntenia" and of the shareholders which have requested the summoning of General Shareholder Meetings at the Financial Investment Companies in order to take the necessary steps to take BCR public.
These shareholders include Radu Hanga, of BT Asset Management, Nicolae Pascu, the president of STK Financial, lawyer Cristian Duţescu, representing the "Firebird" funds, Bogdan Bilaus, of Raiffeisen Asset Management, Eugen Voicu and Horia Gustă of Certinvest, as well as officials of ING Investment Management. In the case of SIF "Oltenia" and "Transilvania", the meeting was attended by members of their management.
The meeting, which lasted about three hours, had the goal of convincing the shareholders of the SIFs that there was no need to summon a General Shareholder Meeting to initiate the procedure for the listing of BCR on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, as some of the SIFs claim that they are close to completing the negotiations with "Erste" for the sale of BCR, especially since the officials of Erste have said on Wednesday that they are negotiating with the SIFs the finding of an alternative solution to taking the bank public. The request of the shareholders that want the listing of BCR, as stipulated in the contract for the privatization of the bank, could, according to some, disturb the discussions between the SIFs and the officials of Erste, who recently said that Erste would do everything in its
