/KASE, June 14, 2021/ – Kcell (Almaty), whose shares are officially listed on
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following
communique dated June 14, 2021:
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Termination of the Deposit Agreement and Global Depositary Receipts
("GDRs") programme
Kcell Joint Stock Company ("Kcell" or the "Company") (LSE, KASE: KCEL; AIX:
KCEL, KCEL.Y), the leading provider of mobile telecommunications services in
Kazakhstan, announces that the deposit agreement between Deutsche Bank Trust
Company Americas, acting as depositary of the GDRs ("Depositary"), and the
Company, dated 23 October 2012, as previously amended ("Deposit Agreement")
and the GDR programme have terminated on 12 June 2021. This announcement
comes further to the Company's announcement on 14 April 2021 regarding the
submission on 13 April 2021 of a 60 days' notice of termination of the Deposit
Agreement, to the Depositary.
Termination of listing and trading of GDRs
Further to the Company's announcement of 13 May 2021 in respect of submission
of notices to the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") to cancel the standard
listing of the GDRs on the Official List and to the London Stock Exchange
("LSE") to cancel the admission of the GDRs to trading on the main market of
the LSE ("LSE Delisting"), the Company announces that the LSE Delisting is now
effective as of 8.00 a.m. (London time) today, 14 June 2021.
Further to the Company's announcement of the same date in respect of submission
of an application for the delisting of the GDRs from the Official List of, and
the cancellation of their admission to trading on, the Astana International
Exchange ("AIX Delisting"), the Company also announces that that the AIX Delisting
is now effective as of 13:00 (Almaty time), today, 14 June 2021.
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This information is available on:
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https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KCEL/kcel_reliz_140621_1.pdf – in Russian;
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https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KCEL/kcel_reliz_140621_eng_1.pdf – in English.
[2021-06-14]