GREEK ORGANISATION OF FOOTBALL PROGNOSTICS S.A.

PAYMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2015

PAYMENT OF INTERIM DIVIDEND FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2015

 

OPAP S.A. announces to its shareholders that, according to par. 4.1.3.4. of the Athens Stock Exchange Regulation, the Company's Board of Director decided during its meeting on 24.08.2015 to distribute a gross amount of €54,160,887.86 or €0.17 per share excluding own shares, as interim dividend for the fiscal year 2015.

The interim dividend of the amount of 0.17 euro per share is subject to 10% withholding tax in accordance to L. 4110/2013, i.e. 0.017 euro per share. Therefore the net payable amount to the shareholders following the above mentioned tax withhold amounts to 0.153 euro per share.

OPAP's registered Shareholders on Monday, 14.09.2015 (record-date) are eligible to receive the payment. The cutoff date will be Friday, 11.09.2015. The payment to entitled Shareholders commences on Friday, 18.09.2015 and will be processed through the Piraeus Bank, as follows:

1. Via the entitled shareholder's Dematerialized Security System's Operators (Banks, Custodians and Securities firms), according to Articles 4.1.3.4. of the ATHEX Regulation and article 39 of the Operations Regulation of the Central Securities Depository.

2.  Via the Piraeus Bank branch network, for those of the Shareholders who have requested to be exempted from their Account Operator to the Dematerialized Securities System or whose shares are kept in their special investor's account.

3. Shareholders, who, for any reason, are unable to collect their dividend through their Account Operator, will be able to collect it through the Piraeus Bank branch network starting on 28.09.2015.

Dividend collection by the entitled shareholders for the abovementioned cases 2 and 3 will be possible either in person or by proxy (in which case the relevant proxy documentation will need to be submitted to the Company with certification of their signature) upon notification of the Investors' Account Code Account Number of the Dematerialized Security System and of proof of Identity.

For any further information, shareholders are requested to directly contact the Company's Investor Relations Division, tel.: +30 210 5798930.

It is clarified that the right to collect dividend disperses if not collected within a period of five (5) years from the end of the year that the corresponding right was born (Civil Code article 250, par. 15) and that following such term any relevant amount shall be reimbursed to the Hellenic Republic according to article 1 of legal decree 1195/1942.

 

 

ATHENS, 27.08.2015

OPAP S.A.