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Arab investors acquire assets in Bulgarian telecommunication sphere

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The Czech PPF Group and the Arab Emirates Telecommunication Group Company (e&) have signed an agreement that e& will acquire 50% stake plus one share in PPF Telecom's assets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia. The investor pays 2.15 billion euros in advance, plus 350 million upon finalization of the deal in early 2024.

In 2018, PPF bought the telecommunications assets of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor in Bulgaria, Hungary, Montenegro and Serbia for EUR 2.8 billion. PPF Telecom is part of the business empire of the Kellner Family, which has $12.1 billion in assets, according to Bloomberg. The e& deal does not cover some of the seller's core assets in Czechia.




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