Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC provided KASE with extract from shareholders register complied as of October 1, 2005

/KASE, October 22, 05/ - Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC (Almaty), whose shares and bonds are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) official "A" listing category, provided KASE with extract from shareholders register complied as of October 1, 2005. The bank's register maintainer is Fondovyi center JSC (Almaty). According to the extract as of October 1, 2005: - total number of common shares KZ1C33870011 was 899,016,660, they have been entirely offered among 32,966 shareholders; - total number of preferred shares KZ1P33870117 was 24,742,000, they have been entirely offered among 3 shareholders; - total number of preferred shares KZ1P33870216 was 48,975,222, they have been entirely offered among 9 shareholders. Holders of 5% or more from total number of offered shares of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC as of October 1, 2005 were: ------------------------------------------------------------- Stake in Shareholder Number of offered or nominal holder shares, copies. shares, % --------------------------------- --------------- --------- Almex Company LLP (Almaty) 736,122,100 75.80 Central securities depositary JSC (Almaty, nominal holder) 150,120,377 15.46 Physical person (Almaty) 68,860,770 7.09 ------------------------------------------------------------- According to Central securities depositary JSC as of October 1, 2005 total of 1,620,060 common shares were on the bank's re-issue account. [2005-10-22]