KASE REMOVED PARAMETERS OF 15 DEALS CONCLUDED ON MARCH 16 FROM CALCULATION OF SHARE MARKET CAPITALIZATION AND SHARE MARKET INDEX

/KASE, March 16, 09/ - Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) informs the KASE Risk committee on March 16, 2009 made a decision at calculation of share market capitalization and share market index not to take into account parameters of the following deals in common shares of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (NIN - KZ1C51460018, trade code - RDGZ), concluded on KASE March 16, 2009: ----------------------------------------------------------- Time Order Shares Price Volume of number per share of deal, deal of deal in tenge tenge -------- -------- ------ ---------------- ------------- 12:45:29 1431309 500 12,100.00 6,050,000.00 12:45:29 1431310 239 12,001.00 2,868,239.00 12:45:29 1431311 40 12,001.00 480,040.00 12:45:29 1431312 2,000 12,000.00 24,000,000.00 12:45:29 1431313 60 10,802.00 648,120.00 12:45:29 1431314 840 10,801.00 9,072,840.00 12:45:29 1431315 12 10,800.00 129,600.00 12:45:30 1431316 70 10,800.00 756,000.00 12:45:30 1431317 658 10,300.00 6,777,400.00 12:45:30 1431318 260 10,000.00 2,600,000.00 12:45:30 1431319 1,067 9,800.00 10,456,600.00 12:45:30 1431320 15 9,500.00 142,500.00 12:45:30 1431321 50 9,300.00 465,000.00 12:45:30 1431322 62 8,000.00 496,000.00 12:45:32 1431323 390 7,500.00 2,925,000.00 ----------------------------------------------------------- The deals were entailed by a trader technical error, and were concluded at] a price substantially lower than a current level of price of common shares of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production and mostly were not executed due to absence of securities at a seller account. The basis for the actions of the Risk Committee is item 1 of article 9 of the Methodology of Calculation of Stock Market Indicators (in part of influence of parameters of the deals on share market capitalization and KASE share market index values). [2009-03-16]