SIMFEROPOL, April 10 - Chernomorneftegaz plans to buy the chain of filling stations of Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky that the Crimean authorities nationalized and put under the management of the Crimean state oil and gas company, Chernomorneftegaz CEO Sergei Beim said.

"The Crimea property fund will make an appraisal [of the filling stations] and we will pay this amount. It will go toward compensating the depositors of PrivatBank," Beim said at a press conference in Simferopol. PrivatBank, which is part of Kolomoisky's Privat Group, stopped services to residents of Crimea after the Black Sea peninsula became part of Russia.