OREANDA-NEWS. On September 30, 2008 Astana-Finance (Astana) informed in an official letter to Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) that September 29, 2008 the company paid the second coupon interest and face value to holders of bonds KZPC1Y02C258, reported the press-centre of KASE.

According to the message the total sum of payment made up KZT6,600,000,000.00, including:

- main debt - KZT6,000,000,000.00;

- coupon interest net of tax collected at the source of payment, - KZT540,000,000.00;

- income tax collected at the source of payment, - KZT60,000,000.00.

This bond issue was registered by the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Regulation and Supervision of Financial Market and Financial Organizations September 25, 2006 and is the first within the fifth bond program of the company. The bonds have not advanced through KASE listing procedures.

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.