KIEV, Dec. 20 ??“ Sokrat Investment and Financial Group, which is lead managing a tender for the sale of 32.86% of Galychyna oil refinery, does not rule out that the Continium Business Group, which controls 41%, may block or foil the sale.

"Certain steps are being made in an attempt to reduce the investment attractiveness of the investment facility itself or in general affect the course of the tender," Vladyslav Ostapenko, the director of Kiev-based Sokrat investment and financial group's investment and banking department told Interfax-Ukraine at a press conference last week.