KIEV, Sept. 12 ??“ Swiss company RosUkrEnergo AG is mulling the purchase of Ukrainian gas supplying companies from former MP Ihor Yeremeyev, Kommersant newspaper reported, citing copies of documents from Austria's Raiffeisen Investment AG, which owns a 50% stake in RosUkrEnergo.

According to the newspaper, Aval bank has evaluated a 42.6% stake in OJSC Lvivgaz at $15.1 million, a 40.75% stake in OJSC Ivano-Frankivskgaz and a 52.4% stake in OJSC Chernihivgaz at $16.6 million each, a 55.58% stake in OJSC Volyngaz and a 56.72% stake in Chernivtsigaz at $6.5 million each, a 60.03% stake in OJSC Zakarpatgaz at $10.3 million, and a 21.41% stake in OJSC Rivnegaz at $1.9 million.