OREANDA-NEWS. September 25, 2009. X5 Retail Group N.V., Russia's largest retailer in terms of sales (LSE ticker: “FIVE”), today announced that Karusel Finance, a fully controlled subsidiary of X5, has made technical steps to redeem its bond issue series 01*. Pursuant to the put option exercise in 2008, X5's fully controlled subsidiaries purchased from the market 2,987,393 of the 3,000,000 bonds originally issued. On the second put option exercise date of 17 September 2009, Karusel Finance made the legal transfer of these bonds from the other X5 entities and also purchased an additional 12,228 bonds from external bond holders. As a result, to date Karusel Finance has accumulated 2,999,621 bonds (of the total issue size of 3,000,000 bonds).