Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC provided KASE with extract from shareholders register complied as of January 1, 2006

/KASE, February 23, 06/ - 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 as of January 1, 2006. The bank's register is Fondovyi center JSC (Almaty). According to the extract as of January 1, 2006: - total number of common shares KZ1C33870011 was 899,016,660, they are fully placed among 32, 347 shareholders; - total number of privileged shares KZ1P33870117 was 24,742,000, they are fully placed among 3 shareholders; - total number of privileged shares KZ1P33870216 was 80,225,222, out of them 74,888,436 are placed among 12 shareholders. Holders of five or more percents from total number of placed shares of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC as of January 1, 2006 were: -------------------------------------------------------------- Stake from Shareholder Number of placed or nominal holder shares, copies. shares, % --------------------------------- --------------- ---------- Holding group Almex JSC 736,122,100 73.83 Central securities depositary JSC (Almaty, nominal holder) 176,013,716 17.65 Tskhai Yakov Andreevich 68,860,770 6.91 -------------------------------------------------------------- According registrar in emission account of Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC as of the above date were 5,336,786 privileged shares KZ1P33870216, in re-emission account - 1,633,610 common shares KZ1C33870011. [2006-02-23]