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

/KASE, March 17, 06/ - In addition to the extract from shareholders register's system, submitted by Rakhat JSC (Almaty) to Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) as of January 1, 2006, the company provided KASE with information about holders of its shares, transferred in nominal holding of Central securities depositary JSC (Almaty). As it was informed earlier, in nominal holding of Central securities depositary JSC were 2,353,025 shares of Rakhat JSC, this is 65.36% from total number of floated shares. Holders of five and more percents from total number of floated shares of Rakhat JSC were (taking into account data of Depositary): -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stake from Names, Number of floated and locations (place of residence) shares, pieces shares, % --------------------------------------- -------------- ----------- RG Securities JSC (Almaty, Kazakhstan)* 2,341,115 65.03 Traiber V.A. (Almaty, Kazakhstan) 434,170 12.06 Khilchuk N.M. (Almaty, Kazakhstan) 231,472 6.43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Nominal holder [2006-03-17]