OREANDA-NEWS. August 04, 2015.  Bank of Astana JSC (Almaty, hereinafter – the Bank), whose securities are officially listed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following information statement:

... K. Rakishev waived the status of a shareholder of the Bank. The deal to sell the bank's shares was planned since such a decision was provided for by the long-term development strategy of the Bank...

... As of July 31, 2015 the Bank's major shareholder is a businessman Olzhas Tokhtarov (with 69.7% of stocks), concurrently serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Astana.

The full details can be found on KASE website in Russian at http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/ABBN/abbn_reliz_310715.pdf