KRTH ZANGAR JSC (Kazakhstan) provided KASE with the extract from shareholders registers system complied as of April 1, 2006

/KASE, April 17, 06/ - Kazakhstan Republican Trade House ZANGAR JSC (KRTH ZANGAR JSC, Almaty), whose shares and bonds have been included in Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) official securities list, has presented to KASE the extract from shareholders registers system complied as of April 1 of 2006. The company's register holder is Reestr JSC (Almaty). According to the extract, total number of KRTH ZANGAR JSC's announced shares was 23,392,280, among them 19,909,800 common KZ1C02220016 and 3,482,480 preferred KZ1P02220211 shares. All shares were offered. As of April 1 the company had 2 holders of common and 990 holders of preferred shares. According to the register holder's data, the holders of 5% and more from the total number of offered shares of KRTH ZANGAR JSC were: --------------------------------------------------------- Shareholder, Number of Stake from location shares, units offered shares, % ------------------------- ------------- ----------------- ZANGAR-GROUP LLP (Almaty) 18,453,094 78.89 G. Altynov. (Almaty) 1,456,706 6.22 --------------------------------------------------------- [2006-04-17]