Kaspi Bank (Kazakhstan) provides KASE with extract from share register as on January 1, 2009

/KASE, February 3, 09/ - Kaspi Bank (Almaty, further - the bank), securities of which are listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), provided KASE with an extract from the share register as on January 1, 2009. The registrar of the bank is Fondoviy Center (Almaty). According to the extract: - the total of authorized common stock KZ1C31450014 of the bank is 19,500,000 items, and 500,000 preferred shares KZ1P31450417; - all authorized shares of the bank were offered; - the bank redeemed 6,898 of its common shares*; - the only person holding five or more percent of outstanding shares is CASPIAN GROUP B.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), owning 19,114,814 shares of the bank (96.40 % of outstanding shares of the bank), including 18,793,634 common shares of the bank (96.94 % of outstanding common shares of the bank) and 321,180 preferred shares of the bank (72.65 % of outstanding preferred shares of the bank). * The extract additionally states that according to Central Securities Depository (Almaty) the bank redeemed 107,106 of its common shares and 57,926 preferred shares. KASE is refraining from study of causes of such discrepancy and from clearing up of whether 6,898 common shares redeemed by the bank according to its registrar are included in 107,106 common shares redeemed by the bank according to Central Securities Depository. [2009-02-03]