Fondul Proprietatea bought 17.38 million shares at average prices ranging between RON0.4843 and RON0.5 a share.

Tuesday, Fondul Proprietatea closed up 0.1% at RON0.505 a share.

The fund initiated a buy-back process on May 11, to keep the shares from declining too much. So far, the fund bought back a stake of 0.41%.

Fondul Proprietatea allocated RON120.3 million (EUR28.3 million) to buy back stock on the Bucharest bourse. The amount is estimated to cover the purchase of a stake of up to 1.7%, well below the fund’s target of around 10%.

Fondul Proprietatea was set up in 2005 to compensate Romanians whose properties were seized during communism.

The fund was floated on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on January 25. (EUR1=RON4.1554)