Kazkommertsbank JSC (Kazakhstan) provided KASE with information about its big shareholder

/KASE, November 9, 05/ - Kazkommertsbank JSC (Almaty), whose shares and bonds are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) official "A" listing category, in answer to inquiry of KASE by the official letter notified KASE about its big shareholders. According to the bank's data as of November 1, 2005 they are: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Name, Number of Stake from location shares. floated shares, % ------------------------------------- ----------- ----------------- European Bank of reconstruction and development (direct ownership) 56,250,000 15.00 The Bank of New York (nominal holder) 114,365,430 30.50 Central-Asian investment company JSC (direct ownership) 184,679,012 49.25 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kazkommertsbank JSC informed about absence of information about shareholders, transferred shares in nominal holding, because these shares are base asset of derivative securities (ADR, GDR), issued according to foreign legislation. [2005-11-09]