BRE receives an offer for its Optimus share burden

BRE Bank has received an offer for the purchase of its shares in Optimus from a consortium of investors including Zbigniew Jakubas, president of Multico, and Andrzej Widerszpil, former president of Compaq Polska, said an unofficial source quoted by Puls Biznesu. There are also rumors that former deputy president of Optimus, Julian Kutrzeba, is in cooperation with the investors, but his role in the consortium remains unclear. Jacek Krawczyk, president of Optimus Technologie, one of the two companies of the Optimus group, will probably be replaced by Widerszpil before the eventual purchase of shares. The size of the offer is not known but may concern the entire Optimus stake held by BRE Bank. The bank is also obliged to buy the stakes owned by ITI and Grupa Onet, which amount to over 51% of Optimus' shares. They are worth only zl. 32 million, but are still a burden for BRE and the bank should be happy to dispose of them as they are unprofitable. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 7) A.D.