OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2011. Particularly, the next round of auctions to sell state’s shares in 32 joint-stock companies that weren’t in demand at previous auctions will be held at Moldova’s Stock Exchange during September 20-23. The state’s share in 15 JSCs exceeds 51 percent.

The total cost of the shareholdings put up for sale at their initial price amounts to 508.3 mln leis. In addition, the investment tender to sell movie theaters in Glodeni and Stefan Voda that weren’t sold at the previous tenders and need investments to be reconstructed and launched will be held in late September.

The deadline for applying for participation in the tender is September 29. It is planned to earn 2 mln leis from sale of these objects at their initial price. The minimal investments, according to the requirements specification, are 6 mln leis for 3 years. Also, a commercial; tender for privatizing 6 state-owned enterprises (as a single property complex) that weren’t sold at the previous auctions and the Yak-40 place will take place in late September.

The initial price of all this property is 283.6 mln leis. Potential purchasers may also apply until September 29. The auction for selling the unfinished administrative building of the Microbiology and Virology Institute in Chisinau (Dacia, 59) with a 54-percent readiness degree to be sold together with the bordering 9.0671-hectare land at the initial price reduced to 116.5 mln leis will be held on September 21. On the same day, the auction “for reduction” for privatizing 8 unfinished state-owned objects that had been put up for sales many times but have never been sold will take place.

The matter concerns unfinished schools, kindergartens, cultural centers, recreation complex and other social objects in different towns and villages. About 2.6 mln leis are planned to get from their sale. However, according to the for-reduction-tender regulations, reduction in the price may not exceed 50 percent, therefore, the total price of sale of these objects may not be lower than 1.3 mln leis. The economy ministry reports that the total cost of property put up for sale in September is 913 mln leis, down 5 percent from July. In addition, a private tax in the amount of 1% of each transaction is to be paid to the country’s budget as a result of privatization.