OREANDA-NEWS. October 29, 2009. “The National Depository Center” (Closed Joint Stock Company) (NDC), Russia's only settlement depository servicing the full range of debt and equity securities of Russian issuers, announces that it has left the authorized capital of Bank “National Clearing Center” Closed joint-stock company (NCC) by means of selling of its stake in the bank. The appropriate changes in the NCC's register have been made on 27 October, 2009.

It is worth reminding that on 29 September, 2009 NDC's board of directors voted to withdraw from Bank “National Clearing Center” CJSC through the sale of its 4,700 common registered shares to MICEX. NDC's stake in the bank amounted to 0.27%.