* Ştefan Vuza yesterday withdrew his bid for Oltchim, to submit an improved tender today
* The businessman still claims that he is being supported by three more industrial groups, "which makes him a force far greater than PCC, as well as the much-awaited bidder from Russia, which is in fact just another Romanian interest group"
The privatization of Oltchim is making the authorities nervous, which have postponed until today at 12:00, the deadline for submitting tenders. Out of the four bids submitted on Monday by PCC, Chimcomplex, Aisa Invest and Dan Diaconescu, only two were left yesterday. And there was no trace of any Russian investor.
Yesterday, the BURSA newspaper published an exclusive piece of news on its website www.bursa.ro, announcing that businessman Ştefan Vuza had withdrawn his bid for Oltchim at 11:35, which he had submitted on Monday through Aisa Invest and Chimcomplex.
Around noon, he sent us a communiqué stating that he has withdrawn his bids to submit an improved bid today: "The decision to pull the bids made by Chimcomplex and to improve the ones filed by Aisa Invest also came as the result of the statements made by Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who is misinformed about the financial strength of Chimcomplex.
We want to clarify that the tender book does not represent a prequalification criterion, and if it did, the < exotic > competitor wouldn't have been able to submit a bid, but perhaps that was precisely the purpose".
The SCR group, controlled by Ştefan Vuza, still claims that he has the support of three other Romanian industrial groups with fully Romanian capital, "being far powerful than PCC, as well as the much awaited Russian bidder, which is in fact just another Romanian group of interests".
Two days ago, the prime minister Victor Ponta commented on the privatization of Oltchim, saying that the situat
