Rakhat JSC (Kazakhstan) provided KASE with the extract from shareholders register's system as of January 1, 2006

/KASE, March 14, 06/ - Rakhat JSC (Almaty), whose shares are traded in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) official "B" listing category, provided KASE with the extract from shareholders register's system as of January 1, 2006. The company's register holder is Registration Securities System JSC (Almaty). According to the extract total number of announced and offered common shares of Rakhat JSC KZ1C06320010 as of the above date was 3,600,000, total number of holders - 1,389. Holders of five and more percents from total number of floated shares of Rakhat JSC were: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Stake from Shareholder or nominal holder, Number of floated location or residence permt shares, pieces shares, % ------------------------------------- -------------- ----------- Central securities depositary JSC (Almaty, Kazakhstan)* 2,353,025 65.36 Traiber V.A.В.А. (Almaty, Kazakhstan) 434,170 12.06 Khilchuk N.M. (Almaty, Kazakhstan) 231,472 6.43 ------------------------------------------------------------------ * - nominal holder The above extract is provided by Rakhat JSC with violation of requirements of point 3 of article 25 of Listing rules, because it does not contain information about persons, shares of which are transferred in nominal holding of Central securities depositary JSC. [2006-03-14]