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PRAGUE, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Almost no minority shareholders in Czech oil group Unipetrol <UNPEsp.PR> sold their shares to the company's majority owner, Poland's PKN Orlen <PKNA.WA>, during a freshly completed public buyout, PKN said on Monday. It said in a statement it bought just 2,461 shares or 0.0014 percent of Unipetrol in the mandatory buyout that followed an acquisition of a 63 percent stake from the Czech government earlier this year.

The settlement will be made on Oct. 19. PKN Orlen offered 139 crowns per share in the buyout, conducted by Czech brokerage Patria Finance. The offer was well below the latest share price of 203.8 crowns. For main central European company news, double click on [.CEE] E.Europe hot stocks [HOT-EEU] Main E.Europe news [TOP/EAST] Related stories on [HU] [PL] [CZ] [EEU-STX] [EEU-RES] [EEU-E] For real-time index quotes, double click in brackets: Warsaw WIG20 <.WIG20> Budapest BUX <.BUX> Prague PX50 <.PX50> ((Reporting by Radek Narovec, editing by Will Waterman; prague.newsroom@reuters.com; Reuters Messaging: radek.narovec.reuters.com@reuters.net; +420 224 190 477))

WARSAW, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Polish oil refiner PKN Orlen <PKNA.WA> said on Monday its restructuring plan for Czech Unipetrol <UNPEsp.PR> included the sale of non-core assets and aimed to boost its unit's EBITDA by 45 percent.

PKN said Unipetrol's Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITDA) would rise to 442 million euros ($530 million) by 2008.

"The strategy towards Unipetrol envisages certain capital group restructuring through divestitures of businesses, which Unipetrol has independently determined are non-core," PKN said.

It said disinvestments included Aliachem, Lovochemie, Agrobochemie and Kaucuk. PKN is paying 14.7 billion Czech crowns ($594 million) for 63 percent of Unipetrol as part of its drive to expand in Central Europe. For main central European company news, double click on [.CEE] E.Europe hot stocks [HOT-EEU] Main E.Europe news [TOP/EAST] Related stories on [HU] [PL] [CZ] [EEU-STX] [EEU-RES] [EEU-E] For real-time index quotes, double click in brackets: Warsaw WIG20 <.WIG20> Budapest BUX <.BUX> Prague PX50 <.PX50>

((Reporting by Nathaniel Espino, nathaniel.espino@reuters.com, Reuters messaging: nathaniel.espino.reuters.com@reuters.net, tel. +48 22 653 9712)) ($1=24.75 Czech Crown) ($1=.8340 Euro)