TAIPED

Greece on Wednesday prequalified seven investment groups to take part in the second phase of a tender for the administration of the Egnatia Odos highway, privatization agency TAIPED said.

Greece on Wednesday launched an international tender to sell a majority stake in Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE) as part of its third international bailout.

Greece's privatization agency TAIPED said it will sell no less than 50.1 percent in the country's biggest oil refiner and interested investors must submit expressions of interest by May 18.

Greece has received one bid for its railway maintenance company Rosco, the country's privatization agency TAIPED said on Tuesday.

Greek railway service operator Trainose, which was taken over by Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane last year, submitted the only binding offer.

Cosco-controlled Piraeus Port Authority SA (OLP) has accused the state's Public Authority of Piraeus Port (DALP) of a "systematic effort to dispute the privatization of OLP and its operation in the context of the law on private enterprises," effectively speaking of state intervention.

A prosecutor's order calling for the case of six advisers to the country's privatization agency TAIPED to be reopened was seen on Wednesday as more or less expected, given that it is back in the hands of the same prosecutor, Andreas Karaflos.

Appeals prosecutor Andreas Karaflos on Wednesday recommended that six experts at the state privatization agency, TAIPED, be retried over a case that was overturned by the Supreme Court.

Greece's privatisation agency TAIPED said on Monday it had extended the deadline for submission of expressions of interest in natural gas grid operator DESFA to August 7.

Greece is seeking a buyer for a 66 percent stake in the grid under a privatisation scheme it has agreed with international lenders.

Monday had been the deadline.

A Supreme Court prosecutor Thursday revoked a ruling by the Council of Supreme Court Judges ordering six members of the country's privatization agency TAIPED to face trial in connection with a sale-and-leaseback deal for 28 state-owned buildings in 2013 and 2014.

Greece's privatization agency, TAIPED, is scrambling to keep a major privatization project afloat following a decision by the Piraeus forestry authority to declare as woodland a section of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko, which was conceded to a consortium of Greek, Chinese and Arab investors last year.

Greece's privatisation agency TAIPED has appointed executive director Lila Tsitsogiannopoulou as its new chair, it said on Friday.

Tsitsogiannopoulou will take over from Chief Executive Antonios Leousis, who has been heading the fund's three-member board for an interim six-month period.