State shares ownership of 14 joint stock companies were passed under control of the State holding Samruk

/INTERFAX-KAZAKHSTAN, Astana, January 19, 07/ - State shares ownership of next 14 enterprises were passed under control to Kazakhstan holding for management of state assets Samruk JSC. Handling of state holdings to Samruk was executed in compliance with the resolution of the government, the order of the Ministry of economy and budget planning and of the Committee of property and privatization of the Finance Ministry, the agency Interfax-Kazakhstan got known about in the press service of the holding. By their data, the companies to be passed under control of the state holding operate in the field of manufacture and distribution of the electric energy, transporting works, machinery construction and mining and smelting industry. Accordingly, pursuant to the mentioned documents, the state shares holdings of listed bellow companies were passed under control of Samruk: the National company "Kazakhstan engineering" (100%), the National navigatory company "Kazmorttransflot" (50%), "Maikainzoloto" (25%), "Air Astana" (51%), "Shulbinskaya SES" (92.13%), "Ust-Kamenogosrk hydroelectric station" (89.99%), "Mangistau distributive electric networks company" (94.25%), "Bukhtarma hydroelectric station" (90%), "Kazakh scientific- investigative energy institute after the scholar Sh. Chokin" (50%), "KazKuat" (100%), "Ekibastuz energy center" (100%), "Kazakhstan market operator of electric energy and power" (100%), the Airport of Pavlodar" (100%) and the International Airport of Aktobe (100%). At that, it was informed in the press service that taking into account additionally transferred companies, purposes and tasks of the state holding "Samruk" are established. "It is about maximization of values of companies by way of perfecting corporate management and supporting development of the domestic funds market," it is said in the message. The single shareholder of the holding "Samruk" is the state in the person the Ministry of economy and budget planning of the republic. The state holding Samruk was established by the order of the head of the sate in January of last year. Within the first stage the state shares ownership of five compamies were passed under control of the Holding: Kazakhtelecom JSC, Kazpost JSC, the Company for management of electric networks KEGOC JSC, the oil-gas company NC KazMunayGas JSC and the railway company Kazakhstan temir-zholy JSC (KTZh). [2007-01-19]