Subsidiary insurance company of Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan Halyk - Kazakhinstrakh provides KASE with extract from share register as on October 1, 2008

/KASE, October 9, 08/ - Subsidiary Insurance Company of Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan Halyk - Kazakhinstrakh (Almaty), shares of which are traded in the official list of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) of the second category, provided KASE with an extract from the share register as on October 1, 2008. The registrar of the company is Securities Center (Almaty). According to the extract the total of authorized common shares KZ1C39450016 of the company as on October 1, 2008 made up 339,500 items, of which 279,500 shares were offered. As on the indicated date Central Securities Depository (Almaty) held 153,216 shares KZ1C39450016 (54,82 % or offered shares). According to the registrar the following holders owned five or more percent of outstanding shares: ------------------------------------------------------------- Stake of outstanding Name Shares shares, %* ----------------------------------------- ------- ----------- Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty) 252,153 90.22 APF of Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan (Almaty) 26,601 9.52 ------------------------------------------------------------- * calculated by KASE specialists. [2008-10-09]