that's what I meant -
"Our administrative staff (Latvian State) informed that it had to be sold by the end of 2014."
- here it is truncated passive ('was informed').
In the active voice, we need an object after 'inform' - e.g 'He informed us that...''

Though, when I post here, I have to admit I make some shocking typos sometimes :)

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