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Brazilian Efromovich Seeks Polish Passport to Buy Portugal’s TAP

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Brazilian investor German Efromovich, the sole bidder for Portuguese state-airline TAP SA, is seeking Polish citizenship to comply with rules capping outside ownership of European Union airlines at 49 percent.

“I’m currently regularizing the documentation,” Efromovich said at a press conference in Lisbon today, adding that his parents and grandparents were from the East European country. “I have the right to be Polish.”