OREANDA-NEWS. May 20, 2015. Following the approval of the restructuring plan (the "Restructuring Plan") of JSC Astana Finance (the "Company") by the Specialised Inter-district Economic Court of Almaty (the "SIEC"), by an order of the SIEC dated 27 April 2015, no notice of any challenge or objection  to  the SIEC's approval from any "interested person" has been received by the SIEC. Accordingly, the Company is pleased to announce that the Distribution of the Entitlements in accordance with the Restructuring Plan will take place on 22 May 2015, which date will therefore be the "Distribution Date" for the purposes of the Restructuring Plan.

Inserted below is a link to a spreadsheet summarising the respective pro rata portions of the Cash Element, Dollar Recovery Notes and/or GDRs (as applicable) that will be delivered to or for the account of International Claimants on the Distribution Date.

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/6803N_-2015-5-19.pdf

Please note that each GDR to be received by International Claimants will represent 10 common shares in the Company. The Company, therefore, wishes to make certain modifications to the rounding provisions contained the Restructuring Plan, as set out in Schedule 1 to the Company's information memorandum dated 6 March 2015 (as amended from time to time, the "Information Memorandum"), pursuant to Article 9.2(a)(i) thereof.  Such modifications are, in the opinion of the Company, of a formal, minor or technical nature.

The introduction to Article 4.2 (a)(i) of the Restructuring Plan shall be deleted and replaced with the following:

"each International Claimant shall be entitled to a pro rata portion (rounded down, if necessary to the nearest US\\$1.00 or (as applicable) KZT1.00, in the case of the New Notes, and to the nearest GDR) of the following:"

Article 4.2(a)(i)(C) of the Restructuring Plan shall be deleted and replaced with the following:

"GDRs representing, individually, ten Deposited Shares and, in aggregate, Deposited Shares comprising not less than 99 per cent. of the Company's total issued common share capital as of the Restructuring Date and, if necessary, after accounting for any issuance of Shares pursuant to the Restructuring;"

The Restructuring Plan shall, with immediate effect, be construed in accordance with the amendments included herein.

Any capitalised term not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Information Memorandum.

No securities have been or will be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") or any U.S. state securities laws and the securities may not be offered, sold, resold or otherwise transferred within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. Persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act), except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.  Any offer of securities referred to in this announcement is not being made, and will not be made, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States of America or to, for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons, except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.