OREANDA-NEWS. On September 29, 2008 Astana-Finance (Astana) informed in an official letter to Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) that September 26, 2008 the company paid the first coupon interest to holders of bonds KZPC2Y15C258 (KASE official list, the first sub-category of category "Non-rated debt securities", ASFIb15; KZT100, KZT8.0 bn.; 25.03.08 - 25.03.23, semiannual coupon, 12.00 % APR for the first two circulation years, further - floating linked to inflation rate; 30/360), reported the press-centre of KASE.

The total sum of the accrued coupon on the placed bonds made up KZT479,539,200.00.Of this amount the holders were paid KZT472,834,200.00. The sum of the income tax, collected at the source of payment made up KZT6,705,000.00.

Assuming the indicated sum of payment as on the register fixing date (24.09.08) 99.9 % registered bonds KZPC2Y15C258 were in circulation.

KASE draws attention not to have checked the accuracy of the information, provided in the notification of its source. All the responsibility for accuracy of the information published is incurred by the person, indicated in the message as the source of the information. The persons, willing to disprove the information released in this message, must apply to KASE with a correspondent official letter.